ABC television and PBS Frontline
interviewed Bin
Laden during the time of the Clinton
administration. Bin Laden clearly stated why he opposed America: "They
(Americans) have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal
government,… it is
Israel inside America. Take the sensitive ministries such as the
Secretary of
State and the Secretaryof Defense and the CIA, you will find that the Jews have
the upper
hand in them. Theymake use of America to further their plans for the
world…For over
half a century,Muslims in Palestine have been (by the
Jews) slaughtered
and assaulted and robbed of their honor and of their property. Their houses
have been blasted, their cropsdestroyed…This is my message to the American people: to
look for
a serious government that looks out for their interests and does
not attack
other people’s lands, or other people’s honor…" [ABC
News and
PBS Frontline web sites have the
interview (1998)] - David Duke

Americans
celebrate the revolution of 1776; why shouldn't
Israel celebrate the King David bombing, WW1, WW2, the attack on the
USS
Liberty, 9/11, and all other acts that helped to establish Israel? The
winners write the history. If you don't like it, don't be a loser.Arabs react
with
idiotic protestsThe Arabs complain
that Obama is silent,
but Arabs are silent about 9/11. They should use this opportunity to
expose
the Israeli involvement in 9/11, the HolyHoax,
etc. Why do the Arabs allow
Jews to blame them for 9/11? When
will the Arabs help us expose 9/11? When will the Europeans help us
expose
the HolyHoax? The victims of the WTC dust
in New York City are crying for medical help, but they won't help us
expose
9/11, either. The majority of people are victims because they allow
themselves
to be victims. Don't pity the victims of Zionism. Instead, tell them to
stop
crying and find the courage to help
us expose and destroy the Zionist crime networkhttp://www.erichufschmid.net/http://www.ae911truth.orgHet
ghetto van Warschau werd na de opstand van de joden in 1943 met zware
atillerie
en stuka's bestookt, duizenden burgers zaten als ratten in de val:

On Friday morning, August 2, 2002, at 2:45 AM, an IDF
special unit vehicle
drove to the outskirts of the village of Salim, east of Nablus. Several
soldiers alighted from the vehicle and walked into the village. Their
target
was the home of Amjed Abd-El-Hadi Jubur, suspected to be a Hamas
activist.
Jubur, 26, had four little children (three girls and a boy).

The soldiers assassinated Amjed Jubur near his home.
According to IDF
spokesman's version, which was broadcast on Israeli media, Jubur ran
away
and the soldiers called him to stop. When he did not stop, they shot at
him and killed him. The residents have a somewhat different version,
and
here it is.

The soldiers arrived at Jubur's home and called him to
come out. He
came out and was ordered to undress. Once undressed, the soldiers
handcuffed
him. They ordered him to walk naked in front of them. Jubur only walked
a few dozen meters, when the soldiers shot him in the back - with his
wife
and children watching from the window. After confirming his death, they
immediately left.

An eyewitness whose name is confidential has filed a
complaint with
the "Hotline" human rights organization in Jerusalem. Additionally,
this
version was passed on to Israeli radio stations.

JERSUALEM, April 18
2003 (IOl & News Agencies) -
Some 150
Israeli commandoes are currently inside Iraq on a mission to
assassinate 500 Iraqi scientists, a retired French general told
the French TV Channel 5 on
Friday, April 18.

He asserted that Israel was seeking to liquidate 500
Iraqi armament
scientists who
were involved in the country's biological, chemical and nuclear
weapons,
reported the Israeli Maariv newspaper which carried the
news.

The French general, who was not identified, said the
scientists hunted
by
Israel are the same ones who were listed by U.N. weapons inspectors
for
interviews during their mandate in Iraq which was terminated two
days
before the unleashing of the U.S.-led war on March 20.

The Israeli commandoes might be operating within the
ranks of the
American Marines now occupying Iraq, said the French general, without
elaborating on how they managed to sneak into the war-ravaged
country.

Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, spokesman of the U.S.
Central Command
war headquarters in As-Sayliya, Qatar, had repeatedly said the
U.S.-led
war was seeking, beside toppling

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, to eliminate the
country's capabilities
in developing
biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.

Appealing to the world community to protect them from
the U.S.
aggression aimed at obliterating Iraq's minds, a number of Iraqi
scientists
and universityprofessors had sent an SOS e-mail complaining American
occupation
forces
were threatening their lives.

In their e-mail, a copy of which was sent to
IslamOnlin.net Friday,
April 11, they asserted that occupation troops demanded them,
particularly
physicists, chemists and mathematicians, to hand over all documents and
researches
in their possession.

American forces had, in this respect, gate-crashed the
house of Iraqi
scientist Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, dubbed "Mrs Anthrax" by the
Americans.

Mrs. Ammash's picture and name were listed by the U.S.
Central Command
as
one of 55 "most-wanted" Iraqis.

Evidently, uranium weapons
were used by Israel in a 1973? Israeli war according to Dr Doug
Rokke. That was when Ilan Ramon was doing
his flight training. Some interesting questions need to be
considered about
Ilan Ramon and Uranium. As a young ace Israeli pilot he may have
used
experimental uranium munitions after the Groves Memo was
declassified. He
became top dog of the Israeli F16 squadron and eventually headed
Israeli Weapons Acquisition and Development until he came to NASA in
July 1997 at the
peak of the Clinton-Lewinski scandal.

Ramon was one of the pilots
that bombed the Osiriak Baghdad reactor, the first turning a live
nuclear reactor into a dirty bomb. The
Osiriak reactor was operating under IAEA guidelines. Were uranium
munitions used
for this?

1991 was the first use of
militarized uranium that gave rise to known incontrovertible
epidemiology. Is there Mengele like laboratory
research somewhere?

>From 1998, the US Military
began to become a DU delivery system. In
1991 it just had tank and Warthog penetrators, but later, uses were
found in missiles - 500 kb per Cruise missile, in gravity bombs and
deep
penetrators. DU can also be an explosive powder substitute for aluminum
powder in so-called fuel air bombs like Daisy Cutter and MOAB
bombs. One
UNHCHR researcher wrote that third generation US bombs of this type use
uranium powder.

So in various ways, the US
military turned to DU. Why - is hard tounderstand since this has
always been illegal. Could Ilan Ramon
be Mr DU? If not him then who?

Ramon was conducting
spectroscopic measurement of desert dust
composition on Shuttle Columbia some 2-3 months before the illegal war
on Iraq.
His data was down-linked to project partners at the University of Tel
Aviv. The Israeli airforce flew parallel air sampling with
Shuttle over flights to correlate. The project was reported
successful securing excellent
data.

It is clear to all by now that
DU munitions are neocon favorites.
Michael Collins Piper ably exposes the neocons as "High Priests of War"
(available at 1-888-699-6397). Piper notes that Cheney himself
served as a
director of JINSA - a principal neocon affiliation.

Piper's book "High Priests of
War" is key reading for deciphering the Washington riddle (and 911) as
is his important book "Last Judgement"
about Mossad involvement in the assassination of JFK. The book
tells
that JFK was adamantly opposed to an Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program so
he was
removed.

Peace for Israel is evidently
anathema to Zionism ably exposed as fraud against Judaism by Neteuri
Karta - www.nkusa.org I was thrilled
to visit Israel in 1994 in Yitzak Rabin's happy time - a leader with
peaceful instincts. He too was removed and Perle soon led a
Washington
neocon initiative to Israel to write the "Clean Break" Paper that
closed the
Oslo Peace Accords.

Piper has done a great job in
sorting out some of these problems.

Much more work needs to be
done to clean up the whole mess.

I am reminded of how the
Zionist state asked Albert Einstein to become
its president but he had the wisdom to refuse. When I think about
this black magic that corrupts life even before birth, even at its
molecular
roots, I think of birds, snakes and microbes - anything in God's
creation and
find this perpetration makes snakes look lilywhite.

Only God knows what is in the stars now since the toxic interactions
have biological time fuses years long.

Rachel Corrie, 23, was killed on
16 March 2003
when she was run over by
an Israeli bulldozer. Rachel was trying to stop the
bulldozer from demolishing
the home
of a Palestinian doctor inthe Gaza Strip. Our hearts go out to
her
family and
friends.

US President George Bush has
stressed he had
received a timetable for the withdrawal
of the Israeli forces from
the Palestinian
cities, but he
did not talk about attaining
progress in the mission of his
secretary of state Colin
Powell which lasted
for
ten
days in the region.Bush: Sharon A 'Man
Of Peace' Israel 'Responded' To Call for
Pullout

President Bush strongly
endorsed Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon as a "man ofpeace" yesterday, crediting him
with taking
satisfactory steps to end Israel'sthree-week-old military assault
despite Sharon's
rejection of the president's demandfor an immediate withdrawal from
Palestinian
cities.

Two weeks after he declared that "enough is enough,"
Bush said he understood why Israeli forces were laying
siege to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has his headquarters.
He said the United States would demand that Arafat
deliver results to match his recent condemnation of
terrorism.

"Israel started withdrawing quickly after our call from
smaller cities on the West Bank. History will show that
they've responded," Bush said in greeting Secretary of
State Colin L. Powell, who returned early yesterday
from a 10-day Middle East mission. "And as the prime
minister said, he gave me a timetable and he's met the
timetable."

White House officials later insisted that Bush did not
intend to tip the scales for Israel. A senior adviser said
the president continues to insist that Israelis and
Palestinians alike must take steps to end the conflict.

But with Israeli tanks and troops continuing to enforce a
tight cordon around the West Bank's major cities, the
president's remarks risked further inflaming Arab opinion
a week before he entertains Saudi Crown Prince
Abdullah at Bush's Crawford, Tex., ranch.

"When I hear the president saying that Sharon is a man
of peace after he has destroyed our way of life, and after
the Jenin refugee camp, I don't know if this is not a
reward for Israeli terrorism against the Palestinian
people," said Saeb Erekat, a top Palestinian negotiator.

"And when he says history will
prove that Sharon
is withdrawing," Erekat continued,"all I can say is that President
Bush is as
wrong as wrong can be."

An Israeli official here said
Bush was simply
acknowledging that Israel deserves toend its offensive against
Palestinian militants
on its own terms. Bush, who has receivedconsiderable criticism from
conservatives
for pressuring Sharon, understands that"letting us finish the job is a
recipe for
greater stability," the official said.

On a day when United Nations
Secretary General
Kofi Annan reiterated his call foran armed international force to
keep the peace,
Bush and Powell discussed theadministration's next steps
following Powell's
mediation mission that ended with afailure to win a cease-fire or an
Israeli
withdrawal.

Bush and Powell discussed
prospects for an
international peace conference designedto move the warring parties beyond
the immediate
violence toward the security issuesand political ambitions that have
bitterly
divided them. While the administration isreceptive to the idea, officials
must figure
how to corral participants who havedifferent ideas about the
structure and substance
of such a gathering.

U.S. emissaries will renew
security contacts
with Palestinian authorities in comingdays, both to assess the abilities
of Palestinian
security services after weeks ofassaults by Israeli forces and to
establish
a measure of their performance. CIADirector George J. Tenet, who last
year negotiated
security steps that have goneunfulfilled, is prepared to return
to the
region.

Most immediately, U.S.
emissaries intend to
work with the Israelis and Palestinians toend Israel's siege of the Church
of the Nativity
in Bethlehem and Arafat'sheadquarters in Ramallah. Bush
said he recognizes
that the Israelis will withdraw fromBethlehem only after a negotiated
surrender
of an estimated 190 Palestinians whotook refuge in the church, located
on the
spot where Christians believe Jesus wasborn.

Powell, seated next to Bush in
the Oval Office,
described his efforts as an "integratedstrategy" to link the promise of
political
negotiations with action on security. He saidArafat and other Palestinian
leaders must
take action against individuals who urgeviolence and commit acts of
terrorism.

But Powell, unlike the
president, also maintained
the continued Israeli militarycampaign was causing problems and
said the
Israelis should speed up their exit fromoccupied lands.

"I'm pleased that the Israeli
government is
now continuing withdrawal," Powell said. "Ihope it will be accelerated and we
will bring
that to an end as quickly as possiblebecause that is one of the
difficulties that
we have now in moving forward in theintegrated strategy."

White House officials said Bush
is open to
the peace conference idea, but reportedthat no decision has been made.
There remains
a debate over who would attend andhow various issues should be
packaged. The
administration believes the participationof other Arab states is
essential.

"Will it accomplish anything,
or will it be
a waste of time?" one official asked. "If thereis going to be one, the parties
have to be
sufficiently invested in it. Some of thoseconferences just turn into
sessions where
nations beat up other nations."

Bush intends to explore
possibilities next
week in Texas with Abdullah, who launchedan Arab plan to recognize Israel
in return
for a Palestinian state and Israeli withdrawalfrom lands seized in 1967.

In his remarks yesterday, Bush
angered Palestinians
when he spoke of the "Zeevi Fivekillers," five men suspected by
the Israeli
government in the October assassination ofIsraeli Tourism Minister Rehavam
Zeevi. The
men are believed to be hiding in Arafat'sRamallah headquarters, surrounded
by Israeli
tanks and snipers.

"I can understand why this
prime minister wants
them brought to justice," Bush said,referring to Sharon. "They should
be brought
to justice if they killed this man in coldblood."

Palestinians pointed out that
three of the
five suspects in Zeevi's murder had beengiven safe passage to Arafat's
compound in
Ramallah by U.S. officials, escorted byIsraeli troops. They also insisted
that, under
an agreement signed in 1995, Arafat isunder no obligation to deliver
suspects to
Israel, provided they are arrested and triedby the Palestinians
themselves.

Israeli officials contend that
Arafat has no
intention of prosecuting them, and thereforethey must be handed over for trial
in Israel.

Arafat's security forces
arrested the three
suspects Feb. 21 in the northern WestBank town of Nablus. Informed
sources said
U.S. Embassy officials brokered a dealunder which the three were
transported through
Israeli checkpoints to Ramallah in avehicle provided by the embassy
and escorted
by two Israeli army jeeps.

"This was done with the
knowledge and consent
of the Americans and Israelis," saidErekat. "So now to hear the
president of the
United States talking about the Zeevikillers and justifying the siege
of President
Arafat's compound this way."

The Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine
killed Zeevi in revenge for Israel'sassassination of the PFLP's chief.
The three
men from the PFLP arrested in Nabluswere Basel al-Asmer and Hamdi
Koran, who are
suspected of killing Zeevi, andAhed Abu Gholmi, the PFLP's
military chief.
Two other suspects, including thecurrent PFLP head, were detained
by Arafat's
security forces elsewhere.

Bush's comments at the end of
Powell's visit
could make future mediation efforts bythe secretary of state more
difficult, said
Robert Malley, a Middle East adviser toPresident Bill Clinton.

"This will only confirm in the
Palestinians'
eyes the sense there is a division within theadministration," Malley said.
"This will reinforce
the impression in the Arab world thatPowell was not fully backed in his
mission
by the administration as a whole."

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020419/2002041911.html
Bush commended the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and once again
described him as "a man of peace," but the chief Palestinian negotiator
Saeb Oreikat strongly rejected Bush's description of Sharon, saying
that
this title is "an award for the state terrorism and the war crimes
practiced
by Sharon against the Palestinian people." UK Parliament member Gerald
Kaufman had denounced Ariel Sharon as a "war criminal" the UK daily the
Guardian reported.

While Bush was meeting with his secretary of state
Collin Powell to
be briefed on the results of his mission, the Israeli warplanes and
Apache
and F-16 planes were bombarding a village near Nablus and the
bombardment
resulted in killing three Palestinians. The Israeli occupation forces
also
broke into several villages in Jenin and Toulkarem areas and Abu Deis
university
near Jerusalem and started large scale inspection and mopping up
operations.

News reports said that the Israeli forces which
inspected the houses
of these towns one by one, arrested more than 50 Palestinians and took
them to unknown places, noting that the number of Palestinian detainees
since the beginning of the invasion until now reached 7,000 detainees
many
of them are put in Atsyout camp in the Negev desert.

The Israeli defense minister Benjamin Bin Aliazer said
that the Israeli
forces will continue breaking in operations and the imposition of the
siege
on the Palestinian areas.

The spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry Jadoun
Maer said that
the Israeli forces totally destroyed Jenin camp but he denied that the
Israeli forces had committed crimes. This was in reply to the UN
special
envoy in the region Terry Rod Larsen, who described what the Israeli
occupation
forces in Jenin camp after he had visited the camp as an "unbelievable
crime."

People coming from the occupied Palestinian territories
and experts
at UNRWA said that they found in Jenin camp internationally banned
weapons
and bullets of 5 mm caliber used by the Israeli occupation forces
against
the Palestinians.

Jordanian medical sources said that one of the wounded
who was admitted
in one of the Jordanian hospitals was hit by a uranium depleted
bullet.

The Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres said that the
Israeli military
operations will not solve the problem of the Palestinians.

Peres said in a statement to the Israeli radio that "our
military operations
in the West Bank will not solve the problem and we have to find a
political
outlet for this problem." Peres continued that the issue of the
Nativity
church which he described as very grave and called for lifting the
siege
from the Palestinian authority.

For his part the chairman of Jerusalem municipality Ehud
Olmert admitted
the failure of the security measures which are applied in Jerusalem in
preventing the Palestinian resistance men from reaching set aims and
carrying
out operations inside the city.

Meantime, Palestinian sources on Thursday denied the
withdrawal of the
Israeli occupation forces from Jenin camp in the West Bank and stressed
that the camp is still under occupation and is under an Israeli siege.
The Monte Carlo radio correspondent in the occupied Palestinian
territories
said that what the Israeli forces are doing is just a redeployment of
some
of its military vehicles in some parts of the camp from one place to
another.

The European Union has supported the request of the Arab
states that
the UN Security Council adopt a resolution calling for the UN to
investigate
into the destruction carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in
Jenin
camp.

The spokesman for the European Commission for foreign
affairs told journalists
that there should be an international investigation to this effect and
that the European Union will agree on that immediately. The Arab draft
plan called for lifting the siege from the Nativity church in Bethlehem
as well as the siege on Ramullah in the West Bank and it described what
happened in Jenin camp as "massacres."

The identity card of UNRWA's Jenin
project
manager, Iain John Hook of
Britain, who was killed in the West Bank city
of Jenin on 22 November
2002. The United Nations challenged Israel's
contention that Palestinians
had fired at Israeli troops from a U.N.
compound
during a gun battle in
which soldiers shot and killed Hook. (Reuters)
In today's reinvasion of
Jenin Refugee Camp, the Israeli Occupation
Forces made the bottom section
of the camp into a closed military zone in
the morning, using about twelve
tanks, ten jeeps, and at least two Apache
helicopter gunships. I had been
trying to get between the unarmed children
and the tanks, when I received
a call from a friend who wanted me to evacuate
her sick daughter as the
Army would not let any ambulances
through.

I went with a friend who is a
Palestinian journalist,
and we were
immediately arrested, along with another
international
volunteers, and
taken to a place where about twenty
Palestinian
men were being held. They
were blindfolded, handcuffed, stripped to
their trousers or underwear, and
beaten severely. After I was detained for
two hours and interrogated
briefly, the Israeli soldiers said that I
was free to go. I asked
permission to remain with the men, hoping
to minimise the violence, but
the soldiers refused, saying it was not
allowed.
When I refused to leave,
I was forcibly dragged away, pulled down the
road, and told that if I
returned to the area I would be shot.

I went back the way I had come, past
the United
Nations compound. There I
spoke briefly with Iain Hook, Project Manager
of UNRWA [United Nations
Relief Works Agency] in Jenin, who said he
was trying to negotiate with
the soldiers for women and children to go
home. He came out of the UN
compound waving a blue UN flag, and the
soldiers'
only response was to
broadcast with their microphone in English,
"We don't care if you are the
United Nations or who you are. Fuck off and
go home!" They were trying to
go home. Iain said that things were not going
well. He insisted that he
wanted to provide safe passage for his forty
Palestinian workers and
himself using legal means, i.e., official
coordination with the Army. Some
worried parents had begun to knock a hole
in the wall at the back of the
compound to evacuate children who were there
for a vaccination programme.
We accompanied some of the children
home.

After this, I headed again to the
sick girl's
house. On the way I met a
group of children who told me that a
10-year-old
friend of mine, Muhammad
Bilalo, had been killed and three children
had been wounded by tank fire,
one of whom sustained brain damage. So I went
to where the children were
gathered, and the tanks were firing on them
erratically. I walked down the
road between the children and the tanks until
I was fifty meters from the
tank, where I tried to dialogue with the
soldiers.
I implored them not to
shoot live ammunition at unarmed children.
At that point, they stopped
their shooting. A few moments later, an APC
drove up to the tank [an armed
personnel carrier, like a tank with all the
armour except a cannon]. I
could see their faces very clearly and I
imagine
they could see mine also.
I had seen both of these tanks earlier in
the day.

A soldier raised his upper body and
his gun
out of the hatch of the second
vehicle and began shooting. At first he shot
into the air, and most of the
children dispersed, running into an alley
on the left side of the street.
About three small children remained, however,
and I tried physically to
get them to the alley, dragging and pushing
them. I looked back over my
shoulder and could see the soldier in the
APC pointing his gun at me from
about one hundred meters. Near the entrance
to the alley, I was shot in
the thigh. When I fell they continued shooting
in my direction. I crawled
part of the way up the alley, and then some
of the youngsters dragged me
up the rest of the way.

Caoimhe Butterly being transferred
into a Red
Cross ambulance in Jenin
after getting shot by Israeli troops (AP).
No ambulances were allowed into
the camp, so I was carried on a makeshift
stretcher to where a Red
Crescent ambulance could reach me near the
entrance of the camp. While I
was in the Emergency Room of Jenin Hospital,
Iain Hook of UNRWA was
brought in. He died a few minutes later.

We have been told that when he was
shot, the
Israeli Army prohibited a
clearly marked UN ambulance from evacuating
him and transporting him for
nearly an hour, during which time he lost
much blood. Finally the
ambulance crew evacuated him by taking him
out by the back wall that
employees had broken down earlier.

Having been present in the Camp all
morning,
I can testify that any
Palestinian fighters had stopped shooting
a good two hours before either
of us was wounded. When I passed the UN
compound
in the morning, it was
surrounded by Israeli Army snipers and
soldiers
who were shooting
erratically into the Camp. Two people were
killed and six wounded. All but
one were shot by tank fire outside what the
Army deemed a closed military
zone. I was not caught up in any kind of
crossfire
as the Israeli
Occupation Forces are falsely stating, and
I don't believe that Iain was
either.

The massacre has not stopped. Human
rights
violations and war crimes seen
so blatantly across the world in April of
this year continue on a daily
basis in Jenin. Yesterday, with the casual
killings that marked it, was
not an unusual day in Jenin. It has become
a potentially suicidal act to
engage in the most basic acts of survival.
The Israeli Occupation Forces
engage again and again in a shoot-to-kill
policy without regard as to
whether its targets are civilians or armed
fighters. Israelis have been
shown in April that they can get away with
a massacre, and that all the
international condemnation in the world cannot
get one ambulance in to
evacuate a wounded person.

Thus the lack of accountability on
Israel's
part has become bolder as the
events witnessed yesterday become almost
standard.
These are not military
campaigns. They are acts of terror designed
to humiliate, brutalise, and
bully Palestinians into subjugation. They
are being denied not only the
right to resist, but to exist.

Caoimhe Butterly is an Irish national
who lives
in Jenin Refugee Camp and
has been working in solidarity with the
Palestinian
community in Jenin
since March 2001. Her activities include
providing
moral support and
physical protection to children as well as
adults in homes, schools,
streets -- where children are especially
vulnerable,
ambulances and other
venues where the Israeli Army poses a threat
to people's lives. Dr. Annie
Higgins is an Arabic and Arabic literature
lecturer at the University of
Chicago and is a former recipient of the
Fulbright-Hays
Fellowship. She is
currently in Jenin.

The Palestinias have long been the Native Americans of the
contemporary
world. In the nineteenth century,
Americans showed little regard for America's indigenous inhabitants,
taking their land and harrying them
ever further westward before huddling them into reservations. So
ruthless
was this conduct that it evoked
the admiration of Hitler who declared that the Germans should 'look
upon the [East European] natives as
Redskins'. For the last half-century by providing arms, subsidy and
support, America has enabled Israel to
dole out similar treatment to the Palestinians.

Baruch Kimmerling, professor of sociology at the Hebrew
University in
Jerusalem, and Joel S. Migdal,
professor of international studies, University of Washington, do not
draw this parallel, although, referring
to the Gaza Strip, they - perhaps coincidentally - entitle one of their
sub-chapter headings 'A Palestinian
Reservation'.

But they reject the standard Israeli claim that no
self-identified Palestinian
people existed until very recently,
an idea that was memorably expressed in 1969 by the then Israeli Prime
Minister. 'There was no such thing
as Palestinians,' maintained Golda Meir, who hailed from Milwaukee.
'It was not as though there was a
Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian
people, and we came and threw them out
and took their country from them. They did not exist.'

While similarly rejecting the claim of the Palestinians that
they had
existed as a people from time immemorial,
the authors argue that 'a self-identified [Palestinian] people' was
the result of their encountering over two centuries,
first, 'the powerful forces stemming from European markets and
governmental
administration, and later, Jewish
settlements'. Throughout their book the authors'
sociological-historical
approach is original, illuminating and
convincing.

The crucial stage in the 'Native Americanisation' of the
Palestinians
was 'the catastrophe' of 1948-9, when some
750,000 of them - 90 per cent of the Arabs living in the territory
that became the Jewish state, or 50 per cent
of the population of mandatory Palestine - were driven from their homes
by the Israelis' brutal ethnic cleansing.
This 'transfer' (the Zionist euphemism) was accomplished by massacres,
force and intimidation. Refusing to
allow the refugees to return, Israel obliterated 40 Palestinian
villages.

The 1967 war produced a much smaller ejection of Palestinians
and an
Israeli occupation of all Palestine that
was, initially, relatively benign, except in Gaza where, under the
military commander, Ariel Sharon, 'numerous
young Palestinians were executed without trial following a rebellion
attempt'. Kimmerling and Migdal remind
us that Sharon's notoriety began in 1953 when, on Jordanian territory
he and his soldiers massacred 69 Arabs,
including 46 women and children.

Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat had founded Fatah which became the
nucleus
of the PLO. Some Palestinians were
guilty of dreadful terrorist actions, including the massacre of Israeli
athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games.
Although the PLO attracted much international recognition and increased
Palestinian self-consciousness
as a people, it suffered serious setbacks, being expelled from Jordan
by the Jordanians and from Lebanon
by the Israelis.

After Arafat had been forced to leave Beirut, hundreds of
Palestinians
in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps
were murdered by Lebanese militiamen with Israeli connivance. An
Israeli
commission found that the Defence
Minister (Sharon) 'bears personal responsibility' and recommended his
dismissal.

Israel's pre-1967 borders gave her 78 per cent of Palestine,
which most
observers would think quite a lot for
a people who in 1948 had only 6 per cent of it. The Israelis were not
satisfied, however, and inserted illegal
settlements in the small area left to the Palestinians. When the
Palestinians,
fed up with occupation and the
relentless theft of their land, began their intifada in 1988, Israel's
reaction was ferocious. The Defence Minister
(not Sharon, funnily enough) recommended 'beatings' and 'breaking...
bones' for the natives, but the intifida and
the 1991 Gulf war led to the Oslo agreement of 1993.

Kimmerling and Migdal are at their considerable best on Oslo
and why
it failed. They are, though, perhaps
unduly charitable in not stressing the astonishing incompetence of
the Palestinian negotiators. Either not realising
the extent of Israel's settlements or relying on Israeli good faith,
they did not secure an immediate ban on more
being built. Consequently an agreement that should have led to Israel
returning Palestinian land for peace, resulted
instead in Israel filching even more land. By 2000 the number of
illegal
settlers since Oslo had more than doubled.

The authors believe, surely rightly, that Oslo had two key
defects:
there was no outside arbitrator, and the
agreement was not balanced. The Israelis wanted recognition of Israel
by the PLO and an immediate end to
violence, and they got them. All the Palestinians got was implicit
promises - of a sovereign state, the end of
Jewish settlements and a just resolution of the refugee problem - and
none was kept.

The Palestinians saw that the chief results were economic
decline, ever-increasing
settlements, as well as more
apartheid roads which only the settlers could use, so the violence
started again.

Concluding their acute, thorough, fair-minded history,
Kimmerling and
Migdal see the Palestinians facing Prime
Minister Sharon's 'renewed attempts to wipe out their political
autonomy
- what we might call politicide'.
Although President Bush now says he favours a Palestinian state, his
administration has so far done everything
that Sharon, who opposes such a state and whom Bush ridiculously called
'a man of peace', has wanted.
Moreover, nearly all the far-Right ideologues now ascendant in
Washington
follow the Israeli line. They are
Sharonistas, for whom justice for the Palestinians is no more on their
agenda than was justice for the Native
Americans on that of the US pioneers. So it is hard to be optimistic.
The Palestinians may eventually get
something that is called 'a state'. Very possibly, however, it will
in reality be a Bantustan or a reservation.

The Palestinian People: A History
Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal
Harvard University Press £29.95,pp608

Israel using
chemical delivery weapons in Lebanon. Fuse
and chemical canister can be clearly seen in photo
of Israel Defense Force personnel in Lebanon. Drawing
of chemical weapon is from the Organization for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Rule 1: In the Middle East, it is always the Arabs that attack first, and it's always Israel who defends itself. This is called "retaliation".

Rule 2: The Arabs, whether Palestinians or Lebanese, are not allowed to kill Israelis. This is called "terrorism".

Rule 3: Israel has the right to kill Arab civilians; this is called "self-defense", or these days "collateral damage".

Rule 4: When Israel kills too many civilians. The Western world calls for restraint. This is called the "reaction of the international community".

Rule 5: Palestinians and Lebanese do not have the right to capture Israeli military, not even a limited number, not even 1 or 2.

Rule 6: Israel has the right to capture as many Palestinians as they want (Palestinians: around 10000 to date, 300 of which are children, Lebanese: 1000s to date, being held without trial). There is no limit; there is no need for proof of guilt or trial. All that is needed is the magic word: "terrorism"

Rule 7: When you say "Hezbollah" or "Hamas", always be sure to add "supported by Syria and Iran"

Rule 8: When you say "Israel", never say "supported by the USA, the UK and other European countries", for people (God forbid) might believe this is not an equal conflict.

Rule 9: When it comes to Israel, don't mention the words "occupied territories", "UN resolutions", "Geneva conventions". This could distress the audience of Fox.

Rule 10: Israelis speak better English than Arabs. This is why we let themSpeak out as much as possible, so that they can explain rules 1 through 9. This is called "neutral journalism".

Rule 11: If you don't agree with these rules or if you favor the Arab side over the Israeli side, you must be a very dangerous anti-Semite. You may even have to make a public apology if you express your honest opinion (isn't democracy wonderful ?).

Young
Israelis observe the northern Gaza Strip from a hill near the
southern
town of Sderot during an air strike yesterday. Photo taken Friday, January 2, 2009 Photograph: Nikola
Solic/Reuters

Even in ISRAEL.
het landje PIKthere are demonstrations against the
killing of the defenseless people of
Palestina

The number of
Palestinians killed by Israel in the latest spate of
attacks has been
put at +1000, while +4000 have been wounded.
Both fatalities and injured
include a large number of women
and children.

MICHAEL JANSEN

DEPOSED PALESTINIAN prime minister and Hamas leader Ismail
Haniyeh
yesterday called for an immediate halt to the Israeli attack on Gaza,
lifting of the siege and opening of all crossings.
"This war does not target just Hamas and the government, it is
targeting Palestinians and their cause," he stated in a televised
address as Gaza's death toll rose to 417.
Some 2,070 Gazans have been wounded since Israel's offensive began on
Saturday. Among the latest targets were the Palestinian legislative
council building and a complex housing the ministries of health,
education and transport, all facilities belonging to the Palestinian
National Authority and built with donations from Europe and elsewhere.
Dr Ziad Abu Amr, an independent legislator from Gaza, said he and
colleagues had made fruit- less protests against the "total
destruction" of Gaza but there is international "complicity" with
Israel. He said these institutions will have to be rebuilt before
governance can be restored.
A doctor who lives in Gaza city asserted, "We have never, never, never
heard such explosions." His family survives by staying home. They eat
rice and vegetables. Meat cannot be stored because there is no
electricity: "I managed to get a small bag of bread because the lady
[at the bakery] had promised me a few loaves."
His specialised clinic does not have equipment to treat wounded. "They
all go to the [government] Shifa hospital. But it does not have the
means to deal with all the casualties . . . Many doctors and nurses
cannot reach the hospital because of the bombing," he said.
He planned to walk to his clinic to conduct emergency surgery, although
he was uncertain whether anaesthetic was available.
Dr Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who reached Gaza on Wednesday,
said Gaza is a "complete man-made disaster. It's cold, there's no food,
no fuel. At the main hospital [Shifa] all the windows have been blown
out."
At the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, he saw two field
hospitals and 30 tonnes of medical supplies waiting to enter Gaza. He
said the Israelis are using outlawed fuel air bombs and depleted
uranium warheads. Many bodies are shredded and burnt.
While women and children comprise 25 per cent of the fatalities, they
make up 40 per cent of the wounded. "Civilians are the targets, they
are the victims," said Dr Gilbert.
Although the UN yesterday opened ration distribution centres for
refugees for the first time in two weeks, humanitarian co-ordinator
Maxwell Gaylard warned, "Without the violence stopping, it is extremely
difficult to get food to people who need it. We cannot assess where the
most urgent needs are. And it is too dangerous for civilians to leave
their homes to seek urgent medical treatment, buy supplies and assist
people in distress."
Israel has to open goods crossings for wheat, grain and other basic
foods to feed the 1.1 million civilians dependent on food aid and to
allow fuel to flow.
"Gaza's hospitals are facing their largest-ever trauma caseloads . . .
They must have reliable power."

Our
sons plundered for their organsThe tabloid Aftonbladet, one
of Sweden’s most popular newspapers, published a report Tuesday that
claimed IDF soldiers execute Arabs in Judea and Samaria, harvest their
organs and sell them. The report carried a photograph that purportedly
shows the body of a victim of such an execution, with a large scar
running from his chin to his abdomen. It notes the IDF’s explanation
that the scar is from an autopsy which is routinely performed on people
who are killed in fighting – but seems not to give it much credit and
prefers a completely unsubstantiated claim by Arabs regarding forced
organ harvesting.The report, which
appears under the heading,
in quotes, "Our sons plundered for their organs,” begins with snippets
from a transcript of an FBI recording of a Jewish man who was arrested
in July, in connection with a corruption scandal in New Jersey
involving elected officials, rabbis, money laundering and illegal organ
trading.

Immediately
after providing a short description of the FBI’s suspicions against
that group, reporter Donald Boström takes his readers across the
ocean
to discuss the organ trade in Israel, without explaining what
connection there may be between the two matters. He describes “a strong
suspicion” among Palestinians that young men’s organs were harvested by
the IDF “as in China and Pakistan.” Boström repeats that this is
“a
very serious suspicion” and suggests that the International Court of
Justice should open an investigation into it.

The paper says
that half of the kidneys that are used in transplants in Israel are
purchased illegally from Turkey, Eastern Europe or Latin America and
that Israeli health authorities have full knowledge of the matter, but
do nothing to stop it. It then connects the shortage of body parts in
Israel to stories of Palestinian men who, it says, are killed and
returned to their villages five days later by the IDF.

17 year old eyewitness accountThe
reporter then gives what he says is his own eyewitness account from
1992 -- 17 years ago -- of an IDF raid on a village in which a rioter
named Bilal Achmed Ghanaian was shot and severely injured. He was taken
away by a military helicopter and brought back by the army five days
later, dead. As his family members buried him, they saw a large scar
running from his stomach to his chin.

The report then quotes Arabs
who claim that their sons were used as forced organ donors but provides
no support for this claim.

Israeli
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said that the newspaper had
“turned the demonization of Israel into a sacred cause.” He called upon
Swedish citizens to express their disgust with “the incitement to hate
crimes that the report includes.”

Aftonbladet claims to be the
leading daily newspaper in Sweden and in Scandinavia, with a readership
of more than 1.5 million.

Israel blasts Sweden over organ harvesting report

Israel
has announced that it intends to lodge an official protest to Sweden
over its refusal to condemn an article in a national newspaper which
claimed Israeli soldiers harvest the organs of dead Palestinians.

"Lieberman will send Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt
a strong protest over the foreign ministry's distancing from the
condemnation published by the ambassador," the ministry said in a
statement.

"It is regrettable that the Swedish foreign ministry does
not intervene
when it comes to a blood libel against Jews, which reminds one of
Sweden's conduct during World War II when it also did not intervene,"
the statement quoted Lieberman as saying.

"Freedom of press means the freedom to publish the truth
and not lies."

Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper claimed on Monday that
Israeli soldiers snatched Palestinian
youths and returned their dismembered bodies a few days later, sparking
a storm of outrage in Israel.

A spokeswoman for Sweden's foreign ministry on Thursday
said that "the
Tel Aviv embassy must have responded in accordance to the public
opinion in Israel."

Lieberman further instructed his ministry to examine the
possibility of
revoking press credentials from the newspaper's representative in the
Jewish state.

Sweden slams paper over Israel allegations

Sweden's embassy in Tel Aviv has sharply condemned
Sweden's
largest circulation newspaper Aftonbladet for publishing an article
accusing the Israeli Defence Forces of harvesting the organs of
Palestinians.

"The article in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is as
shocking and
appalling to us Swedes, as it is to Israeli citizens. We share the
dismay expressed by Israeli government representatives, media and the
Israeli public. This Embassy cannot but clearly distance itself from
it," writes Ambassador Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier on the Swedish Embassy
website.

Published on Monday, the article by photographer and writer
Donald
Boström accuses the Israeli army of involvement in the illegal
human
organ trade. In a new twist to claims he has laid out several times
previously, Boström links allegations of organ harvesting made by
individual Palestinians to a New York-based crime suspect, Rabbi Levy
Izhak Rosenbaum, recently accused of attempting to facilitate the sale
of a kidney from a donor in Israel.

Israel's deputy foreign minster Danny Ayalon expressed fury
at an article he described as anti-Semitic.

"I demand the Swedish government condemn this groundless
article," he said.

A spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, Yigal Palmor,
categorised
the article and the decision to publish as "a mark of disgrace" for the
Swedish press.

"In a democratic country, there should be no place for dark
blood
libels out of the Middle Ages of this type. This is an article that
shames Swedish democracy and the entire Swedish press," Palmor said in
a statement.

"We are dealing with the lowest type of propaganda that
doesn't have
even one shred of truth in it. It is a blot on the press, and all of
Sweden's citizens should vehemently reject this racist outburst that
has no place in a democratic society," Palmor told news agency AFP.

Dr. Norman
Finkelstein - received his doctorate from Dept. of Political
Science at Princeton University.

He is the author of several books including The Holocaust
Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering(
Verso, 2000 ), which was attacked by organizations in North America
dedicated to defending Israeli state policies. Finkelstein, both of
whose parents were Holocaust survivors, says "The Holocaust Industry
is, as I conceive in the book, institutions, organisations and
individuals who have put to use Jewish suffering for political and
financial gain." Finklestein’s book Image and Reality of the
Israel-Palestine Conflict
( Verso, 1995 )was praised for its "intellectual integrity" by Israeli
historian Avi Shlaim, now teaching at Oxford. His book (with Dr. Ruth
Birn) A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth
( Henry Holt, 1998 ) was praised by Israel’s outstanding Holocaust
historian Raul Hilberg, as well as renowned historians of Nazism Arno
Mayer, Ian Kershaw and Christopher Browning.

He currently teaches political science at DePaul University in Chicago.

Dr. Noam Chomsky speaking at the Vancouve
Orpheum, March 21, 2004, "I'm delighted to hear that I'll be followed
shortly by Norman Finkelstein and would very strong advise you to come
listen to him. Not only [ is he ] an old personal friend but a person
who can speak with more authority on insight on these topics than
anyone I can think of. So that should be a memorable occasion and I
urge that you not miss the opportunity."

That's right, Israel is a player in the
Tar Sands of northern Alberta
in a multitude of ways and with a variety of impacts. While whole
neighborhoods of a small Palestinian city are currently under one of
the most one-sided bombardments imaginable, Cree, Dene and Metis
populations-- as well as the biosphere itself-- are also getting their
Zionist due in northern Alberta and elsewhere. People taking to the
streets across what is commonly called "Canada" are rightly denouncing
the total complicity of the Harper government (and the Ignatieff
opposition) in Israeli crimes. Yet the other side of the operation is
also in practice: The settler state of Israel is contributing to the
decimation of indigenous territories in the tar sands regions through
technology, investment and more. There is an interplay here as yet
barely explored.

Many Palestinian
solidarity activists within Canada have decried
the Canadian government becoming, along with the USA, in total lock
step with the Israelis on most votes, issues and declarations (even
boycotting anti-racism conferences that dare to call Zionism racism).
The reasons are usually understood as being ideological: Canada is an
imperialist country, supports the US-led war on terror, and is also
founded upon the same colonial settler process. Yet, there may be an
even deeper connection between Canada, Israel and global battles for
dwindling supplies of fossil fuel energy.

Unlike most of the region,
Historical Palestine is not equipped
with massive fossil fuel deposits, whether speaking of oil or gas. Much
like how white-ruled South Africa developed technology to turn coal
into oil during the time that their state was under sanctions or how
the German Nazi regime turned to Estonian shale to produce oil during
WWII, the Zionist state is surrounded by states they do not have trade
relations with and has opted to produce very dirty forms of energy in a
vain attempt to achieve energy self-sufficiency. They have large oil
shale deposits. There are two parts to the Zionist energy strategy of
note currently.

One of the attempts at
this energy strategy traces back to the start up of the corporation
Ormat Industries in 1965(1),
oddly (given the lack of geology in historical Palestine for this plan)
known primarily as a geothermal energy pioneer. This is not the only
form of energy that is produced by Ormat, however. They are also
heavily involved in what they call "Recovered Energy Generation," a
process that involves capturing waste energy forms from industrial
development. One of these is a very insidious technology, designed to
burn off literally the bottom of the barrel of the dirtiest of all
"oils", oil shale. This has been dubbed "cogeneration". It can produce
over 8 times more greenhouse gas emissions than "sweet, conventional"
crude.

Unlike tar sands
production, not even last years all time record
highs for oil prices have yet made oil shale production viable or
attractive, when one factors in the energy return on energy invested
(EROEI). Virtually none of the worlds oil shale deposits have yet to
reach a level of technological innovation to produce commercially
(Estonia, with among the highest quality shales, being the only
exception). But in what Zionists call Israel, "some 15% of the country
is underlain by Oil Shale beds(2),"
according to an Israeli government website. And to get this "oil" (it
would need a massive upgrading, conversion and refining process to turn
the shales into a synthetic oil) at an energy dividend will require a
lot of practice. Alberta has lots of bitumen that can be extracted in a
very similar manner.

Ormat has figured out how
to make EROEI come on the plus side a
lot easier. Oil Shale will produce, aside from massive water waste and
tremendous scars on the earth, a lot of left-over gunk. The gunk cannot
be processed into anything resembling known fuels, but this waste will
indeed burn. Ormat has found a way to partially power the very project
that is carrying out the shale production with gunk left over from the
extraction process. They have even patented the procedure, "OrCrude"(3). Most
importantly, Ormat is the parent corporation for the Canada based
energy company, Opti(4). Why did they do this? In their own
words:

"In the early 1990s, Ormat
developed a technology for producing oil
from shale. But with oil prices low at the time, the Israeli government
was unwilling to back an ambitious project to develop the country's
huge shale reserves.

Now, Ormat has adapted the
technology for use in the tar sands of
Canada's Alberta province, where it's being used in a project run by
Opti Canada set to begin production this year."(5)

Opti, in partnership with
Nexen, runs by far the largest of all the
Steam assisted gravity Drainage [SagD] tar sands projects. South of
Fort McMurray, it is the closest of all major projects to a community.
Anzac, a Metis and first nations settlement, is only 7km's away from
where this massive undertaking takes place. Having publicly celebrated
their opening in October, 2008 this plant would eventually reach
140,000 barrels of mock oil every day, and produces many times the
climate changing gasses as regular oil, more than three times the
greenhouse gasses of a major strip mine (such as Syncrude or Suncor's
projects) or double what is produced by other In-situ ("in place")
operations that currently exist. There are already tailings ponds that
are growing rapidly near this project, and the air pollution near Anzac
will soon be off the graph. They also plan a twin project, Long Lake
South, adjacent to the current plants.

These technologies, even
with the use of "cogeneration", still
consume vast levels of energy and in Alberta this is usually natural
gas. While OrCrude has reduced the reliance on natural gas, it is a
long way from eliminated. With oil shale development will come higher
natural gas requirements.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680 Off the coast of the
Palestinian populated Gaza Strip is a massive
natural gas field, only discovered in the year 2000. In 1999,
exploration agreements (that eventually yielded the large discoveries)
were established with the energy corporation British Gas(BG Group) and
Greece based, Lebanese owned Consolidated Contractors International
Company (CCC) and the Palestinian Authority. This was a 25 year
agreement. After the next years discovery and the following years
election of Ariel Sharon as Prime Minister of Israel, Sharon stated
quite bluntly:

"Israel would never buy
gas from Palestine.(6)"
This declaration was followed by a Supreme Court of Israel challenge to
Palestinian sovereignty over this natural gas, and his office vetoed
the rights of BG to develop the field and sell Palestinian gas to
Israeli buyers. After Hamas became the power in Gaza, even Britain's PM
Tony Blair moved to block a deal between BG Group and Egyptian
interests to develop and market this gas. As retired Lt. Gen. Moshe
Yaalon wrote in October 2007:

"It is possible that the
prospect of a major natural gas transaction
with the Palestinians has been a factor in the Israeli cabinet's
refusal to launch a Defensive Shield II operation in Gaza."(7)

So, in terms of making oil
shale viable, in terms of further
strangling Palestine, in terms of controlling some level of fossil
fuels in the region and in terms of gaining all revenues from the gas
fields, it makes the most rational sense for the Zionist state to
directly challenge the Palestinian sovereignty over the territory. BG
Group canceled their plans to sell the gas to Israel and closed their
offices two months after the Yaalon article went public.

It gets much worse. June
2008 was when the Olmert government began
military preparations to assault Gaza, code-named "Operation Cast Lead"(8)
but it was months later that BG Group was re-approached by Israel to
start negotiations on having BG Group develop the gas. While building
military preparedness for the assault on the open air prison of the
Gaza Strip, the same Israeli government changed the field of
negotiations and began anew. Old contracts carried by BG Group for the
region are announced as canceled by BG Group itself on their website,
while 'reassuring' investors that they are "...evaluating options for
commercialising the gas(9)" that legally belongs to the Palestinian
Authority.

Of course, just as the
state of Israel was founded on the myth
that there were no Palestinians in the territory, the absence of
government in Gaza-- an intended consequence of the massive bombardment
of the imprisoned territory-- will be used as an excuse to simply take
control of the gas, develop it and burn it to produce oil shale at the
cost of the lands where shale is extracted and the very biosphere
itself-- not to mention the funds for crucially needed infrastructure
within Gaza itself, after Israel has decimated schools, homes,
hospitals, mosques and more. The Gaza Strip is to be left with
destroyed infrastructure in order to prevent Gazan control over the
development prospects and capital needed to rebuild.

Dene, Metis and Cree
communities throughout the multiple areas in
Alberta where tar sands are produced are already seeing the worst
aspects of colonialism: in exchange for the destruction of their lands,
languages, culture and history, the full value of the resources are
being taken for mere pennies and what is left is a legacy of diseases,
respiratory problems, alienation and ultimately cultural genocide. Yet
the whole purpose for learning how to develop the oil shale in
Palestinian lands is hardly less sinister: Israel, founded upon the
expulsion of the indigenous Palestinian population, cannot exist
peacefully with its neighbours for mainly that reason. So, Israel has
an energy problem as it currently exists. Alberta is providing an
outdoor laboratory to practice what will eventually be the decimation
of Palestinian traditional territory on the altar of the worst forms of
oil and gas development.

Rather than honoring
international human rights law and admitting
every single Palestinian refugee back to live in their homelands and
thereby likely receive energy supplies from neighbouring countries,
Israel protects the apartheid conditions of its current state with the
most destructive of energy strategy possible-- in terms of human rights
and in terms of the very climate itself. One, the above listed Israeli
corporations helping Canadian settler colonialism in order to promote
their own settler colonialism. Of course, of all tar sands mock oil
over 70% already is directly shipped to the United States.

Canada has lurched
headlong into quiet, no questions asked support
for Israeli attacks on anything Palestinian (or Lebanese, Syrian and
Iranian). There is little doubt as to the affection for US imperial
policy that has been enunciated by the Harper government and the
Ignatieff opposition. But the actual energy plays under way in a world
of peak oil and increasingly desperate and destructive options that
remain is an aspect of Canada that needs to be understood. Now, in more
ways than ever, struggles for self-determination against Canadian
colonialism and Israeli colonialism are interlinked -- from one end of
production through to the other, anywhere in the world that oil-based
hydrocarbons lie -- no matter what the cost, whether to the environment
or directly to people themselves. This is the true meaning of Dick
Cheney's comments after 9-11 that "The American way of life is
non-negotiable." http://thelunaticgazette.com/stainsby/

FIRST PUBLISHED INMacdonald Stainsby is a freelance
writer,
professional hitchhiker and social justice activist who has been
involved in several Palestinian solidarity organizations, including The
International Solidarity Movement (Vancouver & Montreal) and
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). He currently resides in
Edmonton, Canada where he is the coordinator of
http://oilsandstruth.org. OST is dedicated to the full shut down of the
tar sands and all related industrial projects across North America. He
can be reached at mstainsby @ resist.cahttp://thelunaticgazette.com/stainsby/

The rights to the
offshore gas
field are respectively British Gas (60 percent); Consolidated
Contractors (CCC) (30 percent); and the Investment Fund of the
Palestinian Authority (10 percent). (Haaretz, October 21,
2007).

The
PA-BG-CCC agreement includes field development and the construction of
a gas pipeline.(Middle East Economic Digest, Jan 5, 2001).

The BG licence covers the
entire Gazan offshore marine area, which is contiguous to several
Israeli offshore gas facilities. (See Map below). It should be noted
that 60 percent of the gas reserves along the Gaza-Israel coastline
belong to Palestine.

The BG Group drilled two
wells in 2000: Gaza Marine-1 and Gaza Marine-2. Reserves
are estimated by British Gas to be of the order of 1.4 trillion cubic
feet, valued at approximately 4 billion dollars. These are the figures
made public by British Gas. The size of Palestine's gas reserves could
be much larger.

Map 1

Map 2

Who Owns the Gas Fields

The issue of sovereignty
over Gaza's gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas
reserves belong to Palestine.

The death of Yasser
Arafat, the
election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian
Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control
over Gaza's offshore gas reserves.

British Gas (BG Group)
has been
dealing with the Tel Aviv government. In turn, the Hamas government has
been bypassed in regards to exploration and development rights over the
gas fields.

The election of Prime
Minister
Ariel Sharon in 2001 was a major turning point. Palestine's sovereignty
over the offshore gas fields was challenged in the Israeli Supreme
Court. Sharon stated unequivocally that "Israel would never buy gas
from Palestine" intimating that Gaza's offshore gas reserves belong to
Israel.

In 2003, Ariel Sharon,
vetoed
an initial deal, which would allow British Gas to supply Israel with
natural gas from Gaza's offshore wells. (The Independent, August 19,
2003)

The election victory of
Hamas
in 2006 was conducive to the demise of the Palestinian Authority, which
became confined to the West Bank, under the proxy regime of Mahmoud
Abbas.

In 2006, British Gas "was
close
to signing a deal to pump the gas to Egypt." (Times, May, 23, 2007).
According to reports, British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on
behalf of Israel with a view to shunting the agreement with Egypt.

The following year, in
May
2007, the Israeli Cabinet approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert "to buy gas from the Palestinian Authority." The proposed
contract was for $4 billion, with profits of the order of $2 billion of
which one billion was to go the Palestinians.

Tel Aviv, however, had no
intention on sharing the revenues with Palestine. An Israeli team of
negotiators was set up by the Israeli Cabinet to thrash out a deal with
the BG Group, bypassing both the Hamas government and the Palestinian
Authority:

"Israeli defence
authorities
want the Palestinians to be paid in goods and services and insist that
no money go to the Hamas-controlled Government." (Ibid, emphasis
added)

The objective was
essentially
to nullify the contract signed in 1999 between the BG Group and the
Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat.

Under the proposed 2007
agreement with BG, Palestinian gas from Gaza's offshore wells was to be
channeled by an undersea pipeline to the Israeli seaport of Ashkelon,
thereby transferring control over the sale of the natural gas to
Israel.

Israel's intent was to
foreclose the possibility that royalties be paid to the Palestinians.
In December 2007, The BG Group withdrew from the negotiations with
Israel and in January 2008 they closed their office in Israel.(BG website).

Invasion Plan on The
Drawing Board

The invasion plan of the
Gaza
Strip under "Operation Cast Lead" was set in motion in June 2008,
according to Israeli military sources:

That very same month, the
Israeli authorities contacted British Gas, with a view to resuming
crucial negotiations pertaining to the purchase of Gaza's natural
gas:

"Both Ministry of
Finance
director general Yarom Ariav and Ministry of National Infrastructures
director general Hezi Kugler agreed to inform BG of Israel's wish to
renew the talks.

The sources added that
BG has
not yet officially responded to Israel's request, but that company
executives would probably come to Israel in a few weeks to hold talks
with government officials." (Globes online- Israel's Business Arena,
June 23, 2008)

The decision to speed up
negotiations with British Gas (BG Group) coincided, chronologically,
with the planning of the invasion of Gaza initiated in June. It
would
appear that Israel was anxious to reach an agreement with the BG Group
prior to the invasion, which was already in an advanced planning
stage.

Moreover, these
negotiations
with British Gas were conducted by the Ehud Olmert government with the
knowledge that a military invasion was on the drawing board. In all
likelihood, a new "post war" political-territorial arrangement for the
Gaza strip was also being contemplated by the Israeli
government.

In fact, negotiations
between
British Gas and Israeli officials were ongoing in October 2008, 2-3
months prior to the commencement of the bombings on December
27th.

In November 2008, the
Israeli
Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of National Infrastructures
instructed Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) to enter into negotiations
with British Gas, on the purchase of natural gas from the BG's offshore
concession in Gaza. (Globes, November 13, 2008)

"Ministry of Finance
director
general Yarom Ariav and Ministry of National Infrastructures director
general Hezi Kugler wrote to IEC CEO Amos Lasker recently, informing
him of the government's decision to allow negotiations to go forward,
in line with the framework proposal it approved earlier this year.

The IEC board, headed
by
chairman Moti Friedman, approved the principles of the framework
proposal a few weeks ago. The talks with BG Group will begin once the
board approves the exemption from a tender." (Globes Nov. 13,
2008)

Gaza and Energy
Geopolitics

The military occupation
of Gaza
is intent upon transferring the sovereignty of the gas fields to Israel
in violation of international law.

What can we expect in the
wake of the invasion?

What is the intent of Israel with regard to Palestine's Natural Gas
reserves?

A new territorial
arrangement, with the stationing of Israeli and/or "peacekeeping"
troops?

The militarization of the
entire Gaza coastline, which is strategic for Israel?

The outright confiscation
of
Palestinian gas fields and the unilateral declaration of Israeli
sovereignty over Gaza's maritime areas?

If this were to occur,
the Gaza
gas fields would be integrated into Israel's offshore installations,
which are contiguous to those of the Gaza Strip. (See Map 1
above).

These various offshore
installations are also linked up to Israel's energy transport corridor,
extending from the port of Eilat, which is an oil pipeline terminal, on
the Red Sea to the seaport - pipeline terminal at Ashkelon, and
northwards to Haifa, and eventually linking up through a proposed Israeli-Turkish
pipeline with the Turkish port of Ceyhan.

Ceyhan is the terminal of
the
Baku, Tblisi Ceyhan Trans Caspian pipeline. "What is envisaged is to
link the BTC pipeline to the Trans-Israel Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline, also
known as Israel's Tipline." (See Michel Chossudovsky, The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil, Global Research, July 23, 2006)

In
this new and expanded edition of Michel Chossudovsky's 2002 best
seller, the author blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream
media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by "Islamic
terrorists".
Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a
military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the
cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.

The
expanded
edition, which includes twelve new chapters focuses on the use of 9/11
as a pretext for the invasion and illegal occupation of Iraq, the
militarisation of justice and law enforcement and the repeal of
democracy.

According
to
Chossudovsky, the "war on terrorism" is a complete fabrication
based
on the illusion that one man, Osama bin Laden, outwitted the $40
billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus. The
"war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalisation is the final
march to the "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S.
military-industrial complex.

September
11, 2001 provides a justification for waging a war without borders.
Washington's agenda consists
in extending the frontiers of the American Empire to facilitate
complete U.S. corporate control, while installing within America the
institutions of the Homeland Security State.

The Zionist Elephant In The Room
The Zionist Elephant In The Room The David Icke Newsletter
The Elephant In The Room

... BUT SEE IT AND YOU'RE
'RACIST'

Hello all ...

The political creed of Zionism has big ears and a long trunk and I
think it's time that was pointed out. It also stampedes through our
lives at every level and that needs to be said, too.

It has created a pincer-movement on the human mind by hijacking
staggering amounts of political, corporate, banking and media power on
one side and by using the fear of being called 'anti-Semitic' if you
dare to state the bloody obvious.

They have been able to do this by equating in public perception that
Zionism = Jewish people. It does not. Zionism is a political creed
introduced by the House of Rothschild to advance the goals of the
Illuminati families that are largely controlled by the Rothschilds.

When people think of Zionism they think of Jewish people. When they
think of Israel they think of Jewish people. That's understandable
given the propaganda, but it is seriously misleading and those instant
connections need to be broken if we are going to understand what's
going on here.

Zionism means Rothschild just as Israel means Rothschild. When we see
the extraordinary number of Zionists in key positions around the world
we are looking not at 'manipulating Jews', but manipulating Zionists
representing the interests and demands of the Rothschilds.

Significant numbers of Jewish people are not Zionists and oppose that
appalling creed while many Zionists are not Jewish. These include the
Christian Zionists and Obama's vice-president, Joe Biden, who told
Israeli television 'I'm a Zionist'. Here's the clip if you can stand it
... If, as Biden rightly says, you don't have to be a Jew to be a
Zionist, how can it be a racial rather than a political movement? It
can't. It's just made to appear like that to manipulate public
perception because opposing Zionism then becomes opposing Jewish people
as a whole and the 'you're a racist' card can be played over and over.

Far from protecting and advancing the interests of the mass of Jewish
people it has often been devastating for them and caused millions to be
labelled unfairly by the actions of the Zionist elite. On the Jews
Against Zionism website one feature highlights how Rothschild Zionism
targeted Jews who had lived for generations in Palestine side-by-side
with Arabs in peace and harmony:

'The religious Jews who by virtue of their faith, clearly contradicted
Zionist nationalism, and who had lived peacefully with their Arab
neighbors for generations, became unwillingly identified with the
Zionist cause and their struggle with the Arabs.

They requested the United Nations that Jerusalem be designated as a
defacto international city. They appealed to the diplomatic corps
assigned to Jerusalem -- but to no avail. They were hence confronted
with the choice of either becoming a part of the Zionist State, which
diametrically opposed the interests of Jews as a religion, or
abandoning the land of which their forefathers were the first Jewish
settlers.

Let's get this straight. Zionism doesn't give a damn about Jewish
people. To the Rothschilds and their Zionist gofers and thugs the
Jewish people as a whole are merely cattle to be used and abused as
necessary - just like the rest of the human population.

The networks of the House of Rothschild were behind Hitler and the rise
of the Nazi Party in the Rothschild heartland of Germany where they had
changed their name from Bauer in 18th century Frankfurt and launched
the dynasty that was to control global finance.

After the war the Rothschilds used public sympathy for Jewish people
targeted by the Nazis to press for a homeland in Palestine. This was
the alleged reason for the founding of Zionism, but that is only part
of it.

As I show in my books, the campaign to impose a Rothschild fiefdom in
Palestine goes back at least to the earlier part of the 19th century
and probably long before. It was given a massive boost with the Balfour
Declaration in 1917 when the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour
declared in a letter his government's support for a Jewish homeland in
Palestine.

This letter was sent by Balfour, an inner-circle member of an elite
secret society called the Round Table, to Baron (Walter) Rothschild who
funded the Round Table.

Today, Rothschild Illuminati fronts like the Council on Foreign
Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, Royal Institute of
International Affairs, and others, still answer to the Round Table
which string-pulls and coordinates from the shadows. This is why
Zionists in government are invariably connected with these
Rothschild-controlled organisations.

The Rothschilds funded the early settlers from Europe to relocate in
post-war Palestine and they also funded and armed the terrorist groups,
like Irgun, which bombed and terrorised Israel into existence in 1948,
a campaign which forced 800,000 Palestinians to leave the land of their
birth.

Israel is simply the State of Rothschild and how appropriate that they
paid for the construction of the Israeli parliament building, the
Knesset, and the Israel Supreme Court. The name Rothschild means
Red-shield and it originates with the red shield 'Star of David' symbol
(not a Jewish symbol before the Rothschilds) which they displayed on
their house in Frankfurt ...

The very flag of Israel tells you who owns it. There are many reasons
why the Rothschilds and their allies wanted to hijack Palestine and one
was to keep the Middle East in a state of disruption and turmoil from
which a global war can eventually be triggered to usher in the New
World Order of world government dictatorship.

The creation of Israel is a means not an end and the Rothschilds will
be quite happy to leave the Jewish population to their fate if it suits
them. After all, they've done it before.

The world's second biggest Zionist population is in the United States
and given that both America and Israel are controlled by the Rothschild
networks it is not hard to fathom why that slither of land in the
Middle East receives around a third of all US overseas aid.

An average $3 billion a year is handed to the State of Rothschild as a
result of decisions made by American administrations that are always,
'Republican' or 'Democrat', controlled by the Rothschilds. One hand of
the network hands over the cash to another.

This explains why the United States never talks about the arsenal of
nuclear weapons stockpiled by one of the world's most trigger-happy
states. Israel refuses to discuss them and the American policy,
recently reconfirmed by Obama, is never to ask or bring up the subject.

The last two US administrations are testament to the extent of Zionist
(Rothschild) control of America and thus its foreign policy, not least
with regard to Iraq, the former land of Sumer and Babylon, which
according to some just happens to be part of the 'Greater Israel' that
the Zionists seek to secure.

The 'Bush' government was the glove-puppet of the so-called neo-cons,
or neoconservatives, whose only political philosophy in truth was the
interests of Zionism. At the heart of the Rothschild-controlled neocon
cabal were Richard Perle (Zionist), Paul Wolfowitz (Zionist), Dov
Zakheim (Zionist), Douglas Feith (Zionist), John Bolton (Zionist),
Lewis Libby (Zionist), the list goes on and on. These were the people
who orchestrated the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq on behalf of the
Rothschilds.

Economic policy was dictated through the years of Reagan-Bush, Father
Bush, Clinton and most of Boy Bush by Alan Greenspan (Zionist),
chairman of the privately-owned US 'central bank', the Federal Reserve.
Privately owned, that is, by the Rothschilds through a network of front
people and organisations.

Greenspan introduced the policies of deregulation that culminated, as
designed, in the free-for-all frenzy of greed by banks and financial
markets in general that led to the crash in the last weeks of the Bush
presidency. Greenspan resigned from the Fed before the consequences of
his long-term game-plan exploded in lost homes, jobs and savings. He
was replaced by Bernard Bernanke (Zionist).

Greenspan was enthusiastically supported in his deregulation through
successive administrations by Treasury Secretaries in the Clinton
years, Robert E. Rubin (Zionist) and Larry Summers (Zionist), and also
by the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most
powerful in the Fed cabal, Timothy Geithner (Zionist).

When Mr. Fake Change won the presidency amid the gathering financial
crisis, caused by all of the above, and others, he appointed Geithner
as his Treasury Secretary and Summers as head of the White House
Economic Council. Both are protégés of Robert Rubin who
resigned from Citigroup earlier this year for his role in 'advising' it
to the brink of collapse.

Obama's Budget Director is Peter Orszag (Zionist) who headed the
company that advised the Icelandic Central Bank in the prelude to the
crash of Iceland's financial system. This has led to Iceland being
fast-tracked into the Rothschild-created European Union to 'save' its
economy. Orszag also advised the Russian Treasury when state-owned
assets and resources were handed to Zionist oligarchs, including Roman
Abramovich who is famous in the UK as the owner of Chelsea Football
Club.

Add to all this the fact that the World Bank is headed by Robert
Zoellick (Zionist), who replaced Paul Wolfowitz (Zionist), and that the
International Monetary Fund, or IMF, is run by Dominique Strauss-Kahn
(Zionist).

Anyone still doubt that the Rothschild network controls global finance
and therefore the lives and choices of virtually every man, woman and
child on the planet?

The Rothschilds are at the heart of the Obama White House in the form
of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (Zionist) and Chief White House Advisor
David Axelrod (Zionist). Emanuel has served in the Israeli army and his
father was an operative with the Rothschild terrorist group, Irgun, as
it bombed Israel into being. This included the bombing of the King
David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 that killed 91 people.

Rahm Emanuel also worked closely Robert E. Rubin (Zionist) during the
Clinton years to impose NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement,
which was designed from the start to be a stepping-stone to a North
American, and eventually an American Union, along the lines of the EU.
The Zionist world is very small indeed.

David Axelrod ran Obama's election campaigns and now oversees his every
word slavishly read from his teleprompter screens. There is little that
Obama says that his Zionist handlers don't tell him or give him to say.

They have also ensured that US policy for Iran and the Persian Gulf is
headed by Dennis Ross (Zionist) who has served Israeli interests in
successive American administrations. There will not be a cigarette
paper behind the scenes between him and that trio of tyranny,
Netanyahu, Lieberman, Barak, the prime minister, foreign minister and
defence minister of Israel. Rothschild stooges, in other words.

Zionist Mandelson works for the pyramid

The most influential figure by far in the current British government is
Peter Mandelson (Zionist) who continues to amass more titles and powers
from the beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Mandelson is an
insider operative for the Rothschilds and has frequently accepted
hospitality from his close friend and associate, Nathaniel Rothschild.
This week Mandelson called for the UK to join the (Rothschild) single
European currency.

Meanwhile, the hapless and hopeless Gordon Brown did as he was told and
appointed Ivan Lewis (Zionist) to be minister of state with
responsibility for, wait for it ... British policy on the Middle East.
Lewis, vice-chair of the Labour Friends of Israel, was an outspoken
supporter of Israel's slaughter of the innocent in Gaza this year.
Lewis said of his new job:

'My responsibility for the Middle East peace process is particularly
poignant. I have never hidden my pride at being Jewish or my support
for the State of Israel.'

What chance do the Palestinians have of fairness and justice? None.

In France, as I mentioned last week, President Sarkozy (Zionist) is a
long-time asset of Mossad, the Rothschild enforcement agency
masquerading as the intelligence agency of Israel. Mossad has been
implicated in terror attacks and other horrors all over the world
because it represents the Rothschild global agenda and not the people
of Israel.

The Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein (Zionist) wrote an article
proclaiming that Americans who don't think Jews (Zionists) control
Hollywood are just plain 'dumb'. Stein went on:

'The Jews are so dominant. I had to scour the trades to come up with
six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. But lo and
behold, even one of that six, AMC President Charles Collier, turned out
to be a Jew! ... As a proud Jew, I want America to know of our
accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood.'

And not only Hollywood. Shahar Ilan, a daily features editor with the
leading Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, wrote: 'The Jews do control the
American media. This is very clear, and claiming otherwise is an insult
to common knowledge'. Zionists have truly massive influence over the
news media with the likes of Rupert Murdoch (Zionist) with his vast
television and newspaper empire, and the Sulzberger family (Zionists)
who own the New York Times. The list is enormous across television,
radio, newspapers and the Internet.

When you look at the number of Zionists in key positions of power and
control in politics, banking, corporations, news media, Hollywood and
so on, it is sobering to think that Jewish people are just 1.7% of the
American population and many of those won't be Zionists.

What if the same situation happened with Arab people or Chinese, Irish
or even black Americans? There would be an outcry and questions asked
about how one group can have so much influence over the lives of a
whole nation, indeed many nations. And I stress again that, in the end,
this control system leads to the Rothschilds and the spider they
represent at the centre of the web.

The Rothschilds established B'nai B'rith in 1843 to prevent exposure of
the global Zionist networks. The ' BB' is an offshoot of the Scottish
Rite of Freemasonry and operates worldwide to brand as 'anti-Semitic'
anyone who exposes the Rothschild operation.

In 1913, B'nai B'rith launched an organisation specifically to target
and defame researchers, in fact anyone, who questions, criticises or
exposes Israel and the ever-gathering Zionist influence across the
world. With typical irony they called it the Anti-Defamation League,
better known as the ADL, and claimed it was there to protect Jewish
people. As Plato said: 'This and no other is the root from which a
tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector'.

The ADL is, in fact, a sub-agency of the Israeli (Rothschild) centre
for covert operations, the Mossad, which, according to a former agent,
has the motto: 'By way of deception, thou shalt do war'. If that isn't
the motto, it should be. The ADL is behind the introduction of 'hate
laws' which are aimed at silencing dissent against Zionism or Israel.
The Jewish academic, Noam Chomsky, said this of the ADL in his book,
Necessary Illusions:

'The ADL has virtually abandoned its earlier role as a civil rights
organization, becoming "one of the main pillars" of Israeli propaganda
in the U.S., as the Israeli press casually describes it, engaged in
surveillance, blacklisting, compilation of FBI-style files circulated
to adherents for the purpose of defamation, angry public responses to
criticism of Israeli actions, and so on.

These efforts, buttressed by insinuations of anti-Semitism or direct
accusations, are intended to deflect or undermine opposition to Israeli
policies, including Israel's refusal, with U.S. support, to move
towards a general political settlement.'

The American rabbi, Michael Lerner, agrees:

'The ADL lost most of it credibility in my eyes as a civil rights
organization when it began to identify criticisms of Israel with
anti-Semitism, still more when it failed to defend me when I was
receiving threats to my life from right-wing Jewish groups because of
my critique of Israeli policy toward Palestinians (it said that these
were not threats that came from my being Jewish, so therefore they were
not within their area of concern).'

Firstly, the ADL has never been a civil rights organisation. Its very
purpose has been to take them away. Secondly, it is not there to defend
anyone, Jewish or otherwise. It's there to represent the sadistic
interests of the House of Rothschild and the wider Illuminati.

It is so important that people are aware of this background to Zionism
because at the moment it is basically speeding along unchallenged
through lack of awareness and fear of being dubbed 'racist'.

Well, I couldn't care less what people say about me with regard to this
or anything else. I want to uncover the truth, not win a popularity
contest.

Please, let's circulate this information as effectively as we can and
bring it from the shadows to public attention. We must refuse to be
intimidated into silence over this.

Martin Luther King said: '... we must straighten our backs and work for
our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.'

Figuring
out exactly how 9/11 was done is the work of crime investigators or
conspiracy hobbyists who will endlessly go on discussing and debating
every minuscule and intricate detail of the event to no avail. It
doesn't take a structural engineer to tell you that two 110 story
buildings and a 47 story steel skyscraper plummeting to the ground at
nearly free-fall speed requires the assistance of explosives. All you
need is two eyes that can see and a brain that thinks to come to that
sound conclusion. This is why it is of my opinion that more emphasis
should be placed on the "who" instead of the "how". It should be
obvious to anyone that discovering 'who did 9/11' is infinitely more
important than discovering how they did it.

An Uncanny Prediction Comes True
First
we start off with an unusual and eerie prediction that was made by a
most suspicious individual. This prediction, in unison with the status
of the person of who made it, is extremely indicative and foretelling
of who planned and executed 9/11.

In
1979, twenty-one years before September 11, 2001, Isser Harel predicted
with uncanny accuracy the events of 9-11 to Michael D. Evans, an
American supporter of Zionist extremists of the Jabotinsky sort.

On
September 23, 1979, Evans visited Harel at his home in Israel and had
dinner with him and Dr. Reuven Hecht, a senior adviser to then prime
minister Menachem Begin.

In an editorial entitled "America the
Target", published in the Jerusalem Post of September 30, 2001 Evans --
a Khazar Jew masquerading as a Christian -- asked Harel about Arab
terrorism and if it would come to America. Harel told Evans that Arab
terrorists would likely strike the "tallest building in New York City"
because it was a "phallic symbol". The fact that 9/11 was planned by
the Mossad through the admittance of Isser Harel is well documented and
appears in a book written by Michael Evans. (See Article 7th Paragraph).

Securing Control of World
Trade Center Complex
The
first step in the preparation of the 9/11 attacks was to secure the
control of the WTC into private hands. This was crucial to the success
of 9/11 because without complete control over this complex there would
be no opportunity or possibility of setting explosive charges in place
as the coup de gras in bringing the towers to the ground.

In steps four key Jewish Crime Network
assets:

1) Larry
Silverstein -- Larry is a Jewish American businessman from New
York. Larry obtained a 99 year lease
on the entire world trade center complex on 24 July, 2001. The nearly
worthless trade towers I should point out due to them being filled with asbestos
that needed removal; a process that would have produced a cost that
would have rivaled the cost of the lease itself. Larry explains his
reason for purchasing the towers as "I felt a compelling urge to own
them." Is this a believable reason coming from a supposed successful
businessman? Larry had breakfast in "Windows on the World" restaurant
(located in North Tower 107th Floor) every single morning.
Larry was absent from this routine meeting on the morning of September
the 11th. Larry's two offspring, who also worked in the WTC, also
conveniently decided to take the day off. Either the Silverstein family
is clairvoyant, or then knew exactly what was going down that day. Take
your pick. Larry Silverstein scored more than $4.5 Billion in insurance money
as a result of the destruction of his complex. Silverstein was personal
friends with key player in Zionist controlled media Rupert Murdoch,
former Israeli president & infamous Zionist war criminal Ariel
Sharon, as well as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Silverstein was such
good friends with Benjamin Netanyahu that he would receive a phone call
from him every single sunday.

2) Frank
Lowy--
Lowy, a Czechoslovakia born Jew, was the owner of Westfield America,
one of the biggest shopping mall conglomerates in the world. Lowy
leased the shopping concourse area called the Mall at the World Trade
Center, made up of approximately 427,000 square feet of retail floor
space. Frank Lowy has quite an interesting history. He was a member of
the Golani Brigade, and fought in the Israeli war of independence.
Before this he was a member of Hagganah, a Jewish terrorist
organization. Frank Lowy spends three months of the year at his home in
Israel and has been described by the Sydney Morning Herald as "a
self-made man with a strong interest in the Holocaust and Israeli
politics." He funded and launched the Israeli
Institute for National Strategy and Policy,
which will "operate within the framework of Tel Aviv University" in
Israel. He is also close friends with many top Israeli officials such
as Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, Bibi Netanyahu, and Ehud Barak. He was
also implicated in an Israeli Bank Scandal with Olmert. Frank Lowy
steered clear of the WTC on 9/11. More information about Lowy can be further researched here.

Lease Transfer
Authorization3) Lewis
Eisenberg -- This Jewish criminal personality was the head of
the Port Authority of New York and authorized the lease
transfer to his Zionist brethren Larry and Lowy. Eisenberg was a large
contributor to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign, as well as a
partner in the Jewish bank Goldman-Sachs. Eisenberg has been both a member of the Planning Board of the United Jewish
Appeal/United Jewish Federation pro-Israeli government pressure group
in the U.S.

WTC
Privatization

4) Ronald Lauder
- Billionaire Estee Lauder Cosmetics
magnate. He was the chairman of NY Governor George Pataki's commission
on privatization. He is the key individual who lobbied for the
privatization of the WTC (Source,
9th pp) -- but he also got the former Stewart Air Force Base to become
privatized. Oddly, the flight paths of flight 175 and flight 11
converged directly over this airport.

Lauder is active in the following organizations:
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish
National Fund, World Jewish Congress, American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee, Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Theological
Seminary. Ronald Lauder was elected president of the World Jewish Congress on
10 June, 2007.

The
second crucial aspect of control that needed to be established in order
to pull off 9/11 was to gain control of security of the WTC complex.
This way, Mossad explosive experts -- that just so happened to be in town just prior to and
on 9/11 -- could be readily allowed access to strategic areas of
the buildings in order to prep for the demolitions.

The
contract to run security at the WTC was designated to Kroll Associates
after the 1993 wtc bombing. Kroll is otherwise known as a "Wallstreets
CIA".

Who gave them the contract?
The
Port Authority of New York paid them $2.5 million to revamp security at
the complex. The owners of Kroll was two Zionist Jews named Jules & Jeremy Kroll.

The managing director of Kroll at the time was Jerome M. Hauer.

Hauer
was also the guy chosen to run Mayor Rudy Guiliani's office of
emergency management( OEM) from 1996 to 2000. He is the key individual
that pushed for this office to be placed in Silverstein's building 7.

Jerome Hauer
is also Jewish and a staunch Zionist. Hauer's mother, Rose Muscatine
Hauer, is the retired Dean of the Beth Israel School of Nursing and the
Honorary President of the New York Chapter of Hadassah, the Daughters
of Zion movement that is one of the central Zionist organizations
involved in the creation and maintenance of the State of Israel.

Pre-Knowledge of Anthrax Mailings

A hardly known fact is that Jerome Hauer is the one who advised the WhiteHouse to go on the anti-biotic
effective against Anthrax -- Cipro -- a week prior to the mailings. How
convenient.

How did he know?

Hauer
is an 'expert' in Bio-Terrorism and was the one who was in charge of
the NIH response to the anthrax attacks. His reactions to the anthrax
mailings were 'very slow' to say the least, and he took every
opportunity to invoke "Osama Bin Laden" in his rhetoric.

Who Killed John O'neil?
Former
special agent FBI, John O'neil, who was tasked with investigating Bin
Laden coincidentally enough, was Former special agent FBI, John O'neil,
who was tasked with investigating Bin Laden coincidentally enough, was hired as head of security at the WTC by Jerome
Hauer. Amazingly, O'neil was killed on his FIRST day of work -- 9/11.

It
is important to note that O'neil had quit his job at the FBI after his
investigation into the U.S.S. Cole attack in Yemen was obstructed & sabotaged by U.S ambassador to
Yemen, Zionist Barbara Bodine.
This is because the U.S.S. Cole was NOT done by Al Qaeda. The USS Cole
was hit by an Israeli cruise missile(Source, 39th pp)
to sway public opinion against Arabs (Al Qaeda), as well as demonize
the democrats (didn't take terror threat seriously) -- so that their
puppet George Bush Jr. could be hurled into office in time for 9/11.
This was of course completely covered up.

Airport Security

The
third crucial aspect of control that needed to be established was to
gain control of airport security at all of the airports that the
hijackings would originate from. Passenger screening needed to be
handled by their operatives in order to allow certain people &
certain items (i.e. weapons) onto the planes.
Who ran airport secuirty at all three ports of alleged hijackings?

It
is run by "experts" in the security and intelligence field. Israeli
intelligence that is. Most employees were ex- Shin Bet agents.

Is
this airport security company, who ran the security at Boston's Logan
Airport, as well as Newark, really that shotty to allow 19 arabs on
board 4 different planes with boxcutters, mace, and even a gun, or is
there something else going on here?

Menachem Atzmon, former Likud treasurer in the 80's, was involved in an
Israeli political scandal
involving Ehud Olmert and other Likudnits in Israel. He was cirminally
convicted of fraud, falsifying documents, as well as breaching Party
Funding Law.

ICTS
was also in charge of airport security when the shoe bomber, Richard
Reid, allegedly boarded a plane with a shoe bomb. If Reid is really a
terrorist and not just an innocent man being used by the Mossad to
incite more fear of terrorism, then why did ICTS let him board the
plane knowing he could be dangerous?

Another point indicating
ICTS's complicity is that a few hours before the Patriot Act was voted
on, it was edited to make foreign companies in charge of security on
9/11 immune to lawsuits. This would prevent American courts from
demanding that ICTS provide testimony or hand over the missing
surveillance videos from the airports.

Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab (also referred to as "Underwear Bomber) is a
Muslim Nigerian citizen and alleged terrorist who attempted to detonate
plastic explosives hidden in his underwear on board of Northwest
Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, on
Christmas Day December 25, 2009. Abdulmutallab boarded the US bound
plane from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Kurt Haskell, an attorney
from Michigan, also boarded the same flight and he recalls seeing
Abdulmutallab and another "sharp dressed" Indian looking man who helped
Abdulmutallab board the flight. Haskell claims that Abdulmutallab boarded the flight
without a passport. The security at the Schiphol Airport is also
handled by the Israeli-owned company: ICTS International.MISSING LINKS

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evidence exhaustively presented in this video. The facts will make it
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infiltrated and is ultimately controlled by the same criminal group who
masterminded the attacks.
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Jews should
leave Palestine and return to Europe, top U.S. journalist says

By Natasha
MozgovayaTags: Israel newsBarack ObamaGaza flotillaIsraeli Jews should get out of Palestine and go back
"home," to
Germany and Poland, senior White House Press Corps member Helen Thomas
was taped as saying earlier this week, bringing calls for her
resignation by Jewish organization B'nai B'rith.

In a recently uploaded Youtube video,
Thomas can be heard saying that Israel "should get the hell out of
Palestine," adding that the land was Palestinian, "not German,it's not
Polish."

Thomas,
in response, posted the following statement on her website, saying she
deeply regretted the "comments I made last week regarding the Israelis
and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that
peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the
need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon."

When
asked where then the Jews should go, the senior White House
correspondent said they should "Go home…. To Poland, Germany…and
America and everywhere else."

"Thomas’
comments are contemptible, "B’nai B’rith International President Dennis
W. Glick said in a statement, adding that Thomas's "distortion of
historical reality is astonishing. Her call for Jews to return to
Poland and Germany—site of the Nazi genocide, the worst genocide in
modern history—is beyond offensive."

Glick
added that he felt "Thomas seems to have been schooled by Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a belief that Jews appeared in Israel
after the Holocaust," while ignoring "historical facts that Jews have
called the Land of Israel home for more than 3,000 years, long before
any other group made a home in the land."

"These vile comments,
unfortunately, are the culmination of Thomas' ongoing anti-Israel
sentiments that she kept thinly veiled over the years," B’nai B’rith
International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin said.

"There
should be no place for her in a news organization. Her comments go
beyond commentary and land well in the camp that will stop at nothing
to delegitimize Israel."

Last week, during a briefing with White
House spokesman Robert Gibbs, Thomas' criticized the American reaction
to the deadly Israeli raid of a humanitarian aid convoy, saying that
"our initial reaction to this flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre,
an international crime, was pitiful."

"What
do you mean you regret when something should be so strongly condemned?
And if any other nation in the world had done it, we would have been up
in arms. What is this sacrosanct, iron-clad relationship, where a
country that deliberately kills people," Thomas had said.

Clearing the Baffles
for 911

By Wayne Madsen – October 3, 2005

Top officials of the George W. Bush and, to a lesser extent, the
Clinton administration, stymied a number of coordinated intelligence
and law enforcement activities that could have prevented both the 911
attacks and the attack, eleven months before, on the USS Cole.

These subscribers and ardent supporters of the Project for a New
American Century’s (PNAC) blueprint for U.S. global domination
interfered with covert projects by the CIA, FBI, Defense Intelligence
Agency, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Treasury Department, and
National Security Agency (NSA) that could have exposed an international
organized criminal cartel that included the 911 hijackers, arms and
drug traffickers, and Mafia financiers. According to a number of former
CIA, FBI, and DIA officers, the one glaring missing link in the 911
attacks and the USS Cole bombing is the lack of provable
involvement by organized Islamist fundamentalists, including the
generic bogeyman consistently cited by the PNAC supporters: “Al Qaeda.”

The element that is common to both the Bush II and Clinton
administrations is a group of neo-conservatives who signed on to the
PNAC dream of “some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new
Pearl Harbor" to advance their agenda in the same way the German Nazis
torched the Reichstag building to advance their agenda. Then the
bogeyman of convenience was the Communist Party, today, it is Al Qaeda.

However, much like a submarine “clearing the baffles” by turning 120
degrees to port and starboard to detect trailing enemy subs, the
instigators of 911 cleared their own baffles by firing, suspending, and
blocking U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agents who were
aggressively pursuing the many leads that could have prevented the
advancement of the PNAC and the overall neo-conservative agenda.
Without 911, there would have been no Patriot Act, no Iraq War, no
trashing of the United Nations, no upending of the U.S. intelligence
community, no Department of Homeland Security, and no second
administration for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Moreover, there
would be no current role in government or policy making for those who
benefited most from 911, those who were charter members of PNAC: Donald
Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Zalmay Khalilzad,
Richard Perle, newly-emergent racist leader William Bennett, and Cheney
himself.

***

The one individual who stands tall among those intelligence and law
enforcement officers who was aggressively pursuing the criminal network
that would carry out 911 was FBI counter-terrorism top man John
O’Neill. Ever since the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993,
O’Neill’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda had been dogged.
After further terrorist attacks at the Khobar Towers barracks in
Dharan, Saudi Arabia; the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; and the
USS Cole in Aden harbor, O’Neill’s biggest problem was not Al Qaeda, it
was resistance from top officials inside the U.S. government.

According to classified documents from French intelligence, Al Qaeda
and Bin Laden had still been under the operational control of U.S. and
British “security services” until 1995, fully two years after the 1993
World Trade Center bombing. As of 1996, the U.S. State Department
continued to refuse to list Al Qaeda as a terrorist organization. After
the 1996 bombings of the Khobar Towers that killed nineteen U.S.
military personnel, the State Department under Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, FBI Director Louis Freeh, and the Saudi government
did everything they could to obstruct O’Neill’s investigation.

In his aggressive pursuit of Al Qaeda, O’Neill, according to people who
worked closely with him, began to have serious concerns over complicity
by those inside the Clinton and Bush administrations. There was the
mysterious theft in the summer of 2000 of his briefcase at a Tampa
hotel during a retirement seminar where the only other participants
were 150 other FBI agents. In the briefcase were a few classified
emails and a classified document called the Annual Field Office Report,
a summary of the New York FBI’s office counter-terrorist and
counter-intelligence operations, including one very sensitive
investigation being conducted by another New York counter-intelligence
FBI special agent, Michael Dick. Although a lighter, cigar cutter, and
expensive pen were stolen, the papers were all accounted for when the
briefcase turned up 90 minutes later at another nearby hotel. Ninety
minutes, of course, was sufficient time to photocopy the documents and
discover what O’Neill knew about both Al Qaeda and their Israeli
shadows.

Special Agent Dick, who worked closely with O’Neill, had discovered a
troubling ring of Israeli movers operating in the New York and New
Jersey areas. Furthermore, some of these Israelis not only had
connections with Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies but
were also shadowing Arab and Muslims that had been under investigation
as potential terrorist cells. But the Israelis were acting
independently and there was no effort made to inform the FBI or local
police of any intelligence they were obtaining on their targets.

Further frustrating Dick’s counter-espionage activities against the
Israelis was the fact that they were using communications methods that
made it almost impossible to conduct communications surveillance: they
used Verizon pre-paid cell phones, two-way Nextel walkie-talkies, and
Internet cafes.

At the same time, the DEA had discovered a nationwide ring of Israeli
“art students,” many of whom had past connections to Israeli
intelligence and military demolition units, were operating in and
around New York and New Jersey. What the DEA did not realize was that
the art students were also shadowing the very same Arab cells that
would later carry out the 911 attacks.

And the DEA had become aware of a drug connection between the
Russian-Israeli Mafia in Colombia and the globe trotting Saudi Prince
Nayif al Saud. The DEA’s Operation Millennium was directed against this
network, which largely took down most of the network in June 1999, when
808 kilograms of cocaine were seized in Paris. Later the DEA, in June
2000, the DEA declassified a “SECRET DEA-6” report from the DEA’s BCO
(Bogota Country Office) so that the PCO (Paris Country Office) could
share the intelligence on Saudi cocaine smuggling operations with the
Paris police. The DEA and French law enforcement had compiled tons of
evidence that Prince Nayif was transporting cocaine to support some
major event.

The DEA report stated that Nayif stated that Allah had authorized him
to sell drugs and that later his reason for selling the drugs would
become known. It is significant that Nayif did not use alcohol, tobacco
or drugs. Nayif claimed diplomatic immunity and the Saudi government
threatened France and the Clinton administration with withholding
lucrative contracts if they pursued their prince. Because of O’Neill’s
close contacts with DEA, this intelligence would have been made known
to him as well. The Saudi cocaine smuggling network involved organized
crime elements tied to the Russian-Israeli Mafia in Miami; Medellin,
Colombia; Marbella and Barcelona, Spain; Venezuela; Geneva; and the
Netherlands. According to the DEA report, Nayif fathered a child with a
woman named Doris Salazar, a Colombian national residing in Miami. The
report also states that an organized crime figure only identified as
“Pepe,” a Cuban American who ran a “large section of the Miami Port”
and who came to Florida during the 1978 Mariel boat lift, was involved
with Nayif in “protecting narcotic shipments upon arrival in the Miami
port.” The declassified SECRET DEA-6 report contains the names of a
number of cooperating witnesses in the investigation of Nayif and the
cocaine smuggling network and the author takes seriously the statement
in the document: “Protect identities of the cooperating defendants.”

The DEA originally became interested in the Israelis because they
suspected they were involved in an Israeli Mafia Ecstasy smuggling
ring. However, it soon became clear that the DEA had stumbled across
something much larger – not only were DEA offices and homes of DEA
agents around the country being cased by the Israelis, but they were
also targeting Federal judges, U.S. Marshals, Environmental Protection
Agency law enforcement officers, and FBI agents for surveillance.

It also became clear to the DEA that the Israeli art students were also
involved with certain Colombians. On March 22, 2002, at the Oak Hills
Apartment Complex in Irving, Texas, DEA agents arrested Israeli art
student Dahan Eldad, along with Elsa Beatriz Africano-Leon, a Colombian
national. On March 27, DEA agents arrested four other Israelis in the
same apartment complex, including Aran Ofek, who said his father was a
retired Israeli army two-star general. A $10,000 bond for another
arrested Israeli, Michal Gal, was placed by Ophir Baer, an employee of
Israeli telecommunications firm AMDOCS, Inc., a firm with operational
access to the telephones being used by FBI agents John O’Neill, Michael
Dick, and the DEA agents involved in tracking the Saudi/Mafia cocaine
shipments being used to support various terrorist and intelligence
cells in the United States and abroad.

On April 11, 2001, a DEA agent and a Fredericksburg, Virginia policeman
questioned two female Israeli “art student” nationals at the shopping
center in Fredericksburg. The passport for Yael Gavish contained some
interesting entry/exit visas: 13 December 2000, entry into Bogota,
Colombia and 5 February 2001, exit visa from Bogota. In addition, on 5
February there was a possible entry visa for Panama, which was followed
by a 9 March 2001 entry visa in New York City. Gavish’s colleague
Meirav Balhams had a New York State identity card listing her address
as 354 Paterson Plank Rd., Jersey City, New Jersey. An FBI 9-11 suspect
list dated February 22, 2002 lists Dominik Suter, along with an Ornit
Levinson, a.k.a., Omit Suter, with an address of 312 Pavonia Avenue,
Jersey City. Dominik Suter was the head of Urban Moving Systems of
nearby Weehawken, the base of operations for two white vans with the
same rear license plate that were seen parked at the Doric Apartments
(near Patterson Plank Road) and at Liberty State Park at the same time
the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The
occupants of both vans, all Israelis, were seen celebrating the attack
while dressed in Arab garb. Five Israelis in one of the vans were later
arrested by the local police and FBI near Giant Stadium in East
Rutherford, New Jersey in the late afternoon of September 11.

O’Neill’s FBI colleague, Mike Dick, aggressively investigated this
Israeli ring before and after 911. But like O’Neill, he soon found
himself removed from his duties on the orders of the then-head of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division Michael Chertoff. Dick was very
suspicious when Israeli movers quickly moved Zim American Israeli
Shipping Company out of its 10,000 square feet of office space on the
17th Floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The partially
Israeli state-owned firm forfeited a $50,000 security deposit when it
terminated its lease and vacated the building one week prior to 911.
According to a non official cover (NOC) CIA source who worked with
Dick, Israeli movers moved explosives into the 17th Floor office space
after Zim moved out.

After 911, Dick as well as the CIA NOC were harassed by their superiors
on orders “from above.” Those orders came from Chertoff. Dick was first
relieved of his primary counter-espionage duties, eventually sent to
Pakistan to investigate the kidnapping of <>Wall Street
Journal<> reporter Daniel Pearl, and eventually buried in a desk
job at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. According to the CIA source,
Pearl was murdered because he was getting too close to the money trail
that financed 911. The CIA source said, “the same group that beheaded
Pearl in Pakistan did the beheadings in Iraq.” The source added that
the beheadings were “not Al Qaeda.”

The CIA source, who emphasized his past Republican credentials,
emphasized that Al Qaeda was merely a “list” of arms dealers,
mercenaries, drug dealers, financiers, and terrorists used by the CIA
and Saudis during the Afghan Mujaheddin War against the Soviets. The
source also iterated that all the 911 hijackers had fake IDs. During a
joint CIA-FBI operation against lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in Fort
Lee, New Jersey in 2000, the CIA and FBI team leaders complained to
their superiors that their operation was being photographed by Israeli
agents, thus compromising the operation. The CIA source affirmed that
the Israelis in New Jersey were providing cover for the future hijacker
teams.

It was not the first run-in by the CIA operative with the Israelis. He
once caught a senior U.S. diplomat with close ties to Israel taking
bribes from Moroccan government officials to write favorable reports on
Morocco’s continued control over disputed and oil and mineral rich
Western Sahara. Attempts to follow the diplomat’s laundered money were
rebuffed by Madeleine Albright’s State Department.

The problems at the top of the CIA and FBI, said the source, existed
since the Russian/Soviet spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen were
able to penetrate the top levels of both agencies. “They got there with
help,” said the source.

O’Neill decided that because his own agency was stymieing his own
investigative leads, he relied on DEA to handle his most sensitive
inquiries and communications. Although DEA memos later suggested that
Israeli telecommunications companies, under contract to the Justice
Department, may have penetrated sensitive DEA communications as part of
an intelligence operation, O’Neill was sure that his communications at
the FBI were totally compromised and forced to rely on the DEA because
of both internal political pressure from the FBI and Justice Department
leadership and his fear that his communications were being wiretapped.

O’Neill also relied on French intelligence to obtain wiretap
information on Al Qaeda cells. O’Neill was certain that the Saudi
government and oil industry-centric members of the Bush administration
were behind the Al Qaeda network. He was also aware of repeated
negotiations between U.S. oil companies like UNOCAL and Halliburton and
Taliban representatives dating back to 1996, the same year the Khobar
Towers were bombed by the Taliban’s Al Qaeda wards. Although those
negotiations ceased after the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, they
began again in earnest after George W. Bush became president.

O’Neill had discovered that some of his Al Qaeda targets were involved
in some very un-Islamic fundamentalist activities, including drug
smuggling, teenage prostitution, and blood diamond dealing. The
financial trail led O’Neill to a network of bank accounts in London,
Dubai, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, and Jersey. The network investigated
coincided exactly with the activities being carried out by the
Russian-Israeli Mafia and its links to diamond, drug, and weapons
dealers that was especially active in New York and Florida. The future
911 hijackers and their Israeli “shadows” had more than living in the
same neighborhoods and frequenting the same bars, video rental stores,
and rental mailbox stores in common.

***

On October 12, 2000, the USS Cole, docked in Aden harbor after
the U.S. Navy deemed the port safe and certified it as a Defense Fuel
Support Point, was reportedly blown up by two men who approached the
warship in a small boat. The men were said to be Al Qaeda members from
the bin Laden family homeland in Hadhramaut, a remote region in the
east of Yemen straddling the Yemeni-Saudi border. Later, groups called
the Army of Mohammed and the Army of Aden-Abyan claimed responsibility
for the attack but these claims were reported through obscure sources
in London.

O’Neill and his FBI soon arrived in Yemen to investigate the crime.
From the outset, O’Neill received a cold shoulder from the U.S.
ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine (the Deputy Chief of Mission in
Kuwait before Desert Storm and the U.S. viceroy for central Iraq after
the U.S. occupation). Bodine’s orders to limit the scope of O’Neill’s
investigation came from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose
father Dr. Joseph Korbel, a neo-con anti-Soviet professor, was the
mentor for one of his students at the University of Denver –
Condoleeezza Rice. O’Neill was not permitted to interview Yemenis who
witnessed the Cole explosion. O’Neill was not permitted to examine the
hat worn by one of the bombers in the boat nor was he allowed to
examine the harbor sludge for evidence.

O’Neill was soon pulled out of Yemen and Bodine refused him and his
team permission to re-enter the country. O’Neill was getting too close
to something. In February, 2001, after Yemen’s Interior Minister
Hussein Mohammed Arab made a statement that there was no evidence
linking the Cole bombing to Al Qaeda ("Investigations have not so far
proved, either to us or to the Americans, any link between Osama bin
Laden and the Cole bombing."), the Bush administration showed no desire
to find out who actually bombed the ship. They were too busy clearing
the baffles for the Iraq invasion and their other agendas.

In early 2001, rumors began circulating that O’Neill would take over
White House Counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke’s job at the
National Security Council. Clarke had been one of the few holdovers
from the Clinton to Bush administrations. Suddenly, the story about the
90 minute theft of O’Neill’s brief case was leaked to the New York
Times, even though the Justice Department had long before dropped its
own investigation of the incident. Although the FBI continued its own
investigation of the brief case incident, it prevented an investigation
of the leak of the O’Neill incident to the media.

On August 22, O’Neill retired from 30 years’ service with the FBI. The
next day, he began his job as Security Director for the World Trade
Center. His office was on the 34th Floor of the North Tower of the
Trade Center. O’Neill’s building was the first one hit on September 11.
He died while trying to save people in the South Tower, the second
building hit by the hijackers.

***

A joint CIA-FBI computer system, code named “Alex,” was entirely
focused on Bin Laden’s network. A unit at Langley, called “Station
Alex,” was established in 1995. It began to detect that “Al Qaeda” was
actually a diversified financial, drug smuggling, arms smuggling, and
diamond smuggling network with tentacles in over 60 countries around
the world. And, as with any large criminal syndicate, it had ties with
legitimate companies such as banks, hawalahs, and religious charities,
but also with criminal enterprises, including the Russian-Israeli,
Latin American, and Balkans Mafias. This first step at coordinating the
efforts of the CIA and FBI in combating Al Qaeda was successful. The
FBI lead Alex agent was John O’Neill. His CIA counterpart was Michael
Scheuer, who would later abruptly leave Langley upset that the threat
posed by Al Qaeda was not being taken more seriously by the Bush
administration. Scheuer’s worries mirrored those of O’Neill in the
months before he was killed at the World Trade Center. As O’Neill got
closer to those who would be behind 911, he found himself locked out of
the Alex computer system. His access authorization had been pulled by
higher authority. Eventually, Alex, like its counterpart, Able Danger,
would be shut down by the Bush administration.

Foreign intelligence agencies would prove more useful than either the
CIA or FBI in tracking leads on Al Qaeda and other terrorist threats
against the West. The French, who had a long history of problems with
Islamist terrorists dating from its Algerian War, had tremendous assets
who had penetrated both the Taliban and Al Qaeda. A Confidential
“French Eyes Only” DGSE intelligence document dated January 9, 2001,
which was written about terrorist activities at the Al Qaeda training
camp at Darounta, Afghanistan, bolsters what a CIA source reported
about the October 2000 attack on the <>USS Cole<>. O’Neill
was particularly interested in doing a DNA analysis of the hat worn by
one of the so-called suicide bombers in the small boat that pulled
alongside the Cole. He also wanted to conduct an explosives
analysis of the mud beneath the ship.

The Cole was at THREATCON (threat condition) BRAVO, which means
that its crew was on alert for suspicious approaching craft. One of the
security detail aboard the Cole said he was under the impression that
the small boat was a harbor services craft used to assist in garbage
disposal and other routine operations.

The classified French intelligence report concludes that there was
never a link between Al Qaeda units trained in Afghanistan for
amphibious operations against ships and the attack on the Cole.
This begs the question: if Al Qaeda did not bomb the Cole (as
affirmed by the Yemeni prime minister), who did?

The following is from the French intelligence report:

“A group of Arab nationals, whose nationality is undetermined,
were trained in amphibious operations at Darounta at the end of 1999
under the command of a Yemeni. In addition, in January 2000, a project
to attack an American destroyer in Aden failed due to a lack of
preparation. Finally, in February 2000, a group comprising 10 Yemenis
had arrived in Darounta. Until May 2000, they were trained in using
explosives supplied by Abou Khabab before they were sent to Jordan and
Yemen.

No proof exists to connect these elements to the attack on the
destroyer USS Cole perpetrated on October 12, 2000, but the American
intelligence service has rapidly attempted information on Abou Khebab
after the attack.

Finally, for what concerns France, it has been established that several
French Islamists implicated in the attacks of 1995 and 1996 traveled to
Afghan camps. Among them appear former Bosnian combatants like Joseph
Jaime and David Vallat, and especially Farid Mellouk, who, in 1995,
attended a training course in explosives at Darounta. Investigated by
French police, he was arrested on 5 March 1998 in Belgium. A search
resulted in the seizure of explosives, various types of detonators,
potassium cyanide, and different written notes similar to the
information in the course run at Darounta.

Excepting the Maghrebian enclave, the training given at Darounta, for a
duration of about 2 months, principally concerned the making of
explosives for the use by terrorists. This instruction, originally
provided at Khalden camp in Paktia, was transferred during 1995, on the
order of Ibu Cheikh, to Darounta after their break from the control of
the special services of certain countries, notably the United States
and United Kingdom.”

The classified report also gives some background on Abou Khebab: “Abou
Khebab – Egyptian. He is identified in March 1999 by the CIA as the
person in charge of training the Islamists associated with Osama bin
Laden in the manufacture and use of chemicals and biological weapons.
According to Egyptian intelligence, he was in Yemen in June 1999 and
makes frequent trips to Pakistan."

Given O’Neill’s close ties to French intelligence, he would have been
aware of the cold trail the French had linking Al Qaeda to the Cole
bombing. He would have also been aware of the CIA’s bird dogging of
Abou Khebab between Yemen and Pakistan. So, if the Yemeni prime
minister and the French are correct, who bombed the Cole?

The former CIA agent who worked with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task
Force in New York and New Jersey stated that the USS Cole was
hit by a specially-configured Popeye cruise missile launched from an
Israeli Dolphin-class submarine. Israeli tests of the missile in May
2000 in the waters off Sri Lanka demonstrated it could hit a target 930
miles away. The ex-CIA agent also stated that Ambassador Bodine threw
John O’Neill and his team out of Yemen lest their investigation began
uncovering evidence that the Cole was not blown up by an
explosive-laden boat but by an Israeli cruise missile.

The former CIA agent said the reason for the Israeli attack was to
further galvanize U.S. public opinion against both Al Qaeda and the
Democrats in the weeks prior to the 2000 presidential elections. The
Bush-Cheney team could blame the Democrats for not taking the Al Qaeda
threat seriously. However, this is exactly the tact the Bush
administration took after taking office: failure to support the
CIA-FBI’s Alex Station, pressuring John O’Neill and other agents like
Minneapolis agent Coleen Rowley and others across the nation who
detected activity involving Arab flight students, and pulling the plug
on a major data mining operation directed against Al Qaeda code named
Able Danger, which was being jointly run by the DIA and the Special
Operations Command.

***

The French discovery of a Bosnian connection to two of its nationals at
Darounta is noteworthy. The Muslim operation in the Balkans was largely
supported by official (CIA, DIA, and Special Operations) U.S.
assistance but also by unofficial help. This was mainly carried out by
private military contractors like MPRI and financial support networks
like the Bosnia Defense Fund, established in the mid-1990s at a Riggs
Bank account in Washington, DC. The principal movers behind the Bosnian
Defense Fund were Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. In fact, Feith’s law
firm, Feith and Zell (FANZ) set up the Bosnia Defense Fund. According
to a former Riggs legal adviser, when objections were raised about the
hundreds of millions of dollars collected from such countries as Saudi
Arabia, Brunei, Malaysia, the UAE, Iran, Jordan, and Egypt that were
being detected by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN)
being sent from Washington to Sarajevo, Bosnia, and reports that there
was “spillage” of these funds into the hands of Al Qaeda units in the
country, Perle’s response at one contentious meeting was, “just make it
fucking happen.”

After 911, Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill attempted to pressure banks
and other financial institutions in Dubai and Saudi Arabia to provide
records of past and ongoing Al Qaeda financial transactions. According
to a former auditor with the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates,
during a trip by O’Neill in March 2002, the UAE and Saudi officials
shook O’Neill’s hand, smiled at him, and offered to assist. However,
they soon put pressure on the Bush administration, including several
leading neo-cons who knew the stakes of such disclosures, to force Paul
O’Neill out. Later that year, in December, Bush forced O’Neill to
resign. A November 29, 2001 letter from Treasury Department General
Counsel David D. Aufhauser to Swiss Procurator General Claude Nicati
described the measures the Treasury Department was taking against a
major Al Qaeda financier named Yassin A. Kadi. However, that particular
thread intersected with activities by Islamist guerrillas in Bosnia,
and that was a threat to certain neocon elements who had established a
Bosnian support fund in the 1990s that involved the same financial
support networks that supported Al Qaeda. In fact, Al Qaeda units were
active in Bosnia during the civil war. And those units were partly
supported by the Bosnia Defense Fund established by Perle and Feith.

According to the Aufhauser letter to his Swiss counterpart, “Mr. Kadi
has acknowledged in a number of press accounts that he is the founder
of the Muwafaq, or “Blessed Relief” Foundation. He is identified in
legal records as ‘Chairman’ of the foundation. The leader of the
terrorist organization Al-Gama’at Al-Islamiya, Tala Fuad Kassem, has
said that the Muwafaq Foundation provided logistical and financial
support for a mujahadin battalion in Bosnia. The foundation also
operated in Sudan, Somalia, and Pakistan, among other places.” The
letter continued, “Muhammad Ali Harrath, main activist of the Tunisian
Islamic Front (TIF) in the United Kingdom, was associated with Muwafaq
personnel in Bosnia and other TIF members worked at the Muwafaq
Foundation.”

The Treasury Department, in its efforts to track down past money flows
to Al Qaeda, had undoubtedly come across those Riggs Bank transfers to
Sarajevo and hence to Al Qaeda in the 1990s. And the 2.5 terabytes of
data collected by the Able Danger team on Al Qaeda also undoubtedly
included FINCEN, SWIFT, and other banking and wire transfer data. And
that pointed not only to people like Yassin Kadi but also to the Bosnia
Defense Fund of Perle and Feith. More the reason to obstruct Paul
O’Neill’s earnest money tracking efforts. Soon, O’Neill and Aufhauser
would be bounced out of Treasury and replaced with more “agreeable”
people to fight the “global war on terrorism.”

Aufhauser’s letter ends with a troubling conclusion about Albania and
Bosnia, the two countries that received support from the neo-cons in
the Clinton and Bush administrations and which have surfaced in recent
disclosures in Italy about ties between the Pentagon’s own intelligence
unit and Al Qaeda-affiliated operatives in Italy who had been liaisons
between the Americans and Islamist fighters in the Balkans: “When a
region becomes more settled, such as Bosnia or Albania today, seemingly
legitimate businesses replace charitable foundations as cover for
continuing terrorist organizational activity. Mr. Kadi’s actions and
those of his Muwafiq Foundation and businesses fit this pattern and
give rise to a reasonable basis to believe that they have facilitated
terrorist activities.”

***

By the end of 2000, DIA, CIA, and NSA had compiled quite a dossier on
Al Qaeda and its activities. Yet, the political leadership of the
outgoing Clinton administration was more interested in not rocking the
boat before leaving for the private sector and the incoming Bush
administration officials were already making it known that they wanted
to see intelligence that conformed with its political dogma. After the
neo-cons nested in the Pentagon, the use of DIA and NSA to produce
cooked intelligence became policy. Similar pressure would soon be
brought to bear on the CIA, State Department, FBI, and National
Security Council.

Post-911, the FBI insisted that Mohammed Atta did not arrive in the
United States for the first time until 2000. However, Able Danger
placed him in the United States as early as 1999. In addition, FBI
Farsi, Azeri, and Turkish translator Sibel Edmonds discovered further
evidence that “Al Qaeda” was tied up with drug dealers operating from
Afghanistan to Turkey and into the Balkans, including Albania and
Kosovo, the nexus for Al Qaeda activity. The drug connection to Al
Qaeda was never investigated by the 911 Commission.

Past U.S. official and unofficial support for the Albanian and Bosnian
Al Qaeda and other terror cells would become highlighted. The neo-con
connection to those elements was also problematic. Edmonds was fired by
the FBI and faced the same recriminations as John O’Neill, Coleen
Rowley, and dozens of other intelligence and law enforcement agents who
did detect that something on the scale of 911 was about to occur.
Allegations by the CIA director Porter Goss, his successor as House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, the
911 Commission, and others that the U.S. Intelligence Community failed
the nation on 911 are convenient charges designed to draw attention
away from the involvement of senior Bush and Clinton administration
officials in laying the groundwork for the attack: the closing down of
various intelligence operations, the firing of key officials, and
allowing classified information to leak to countries like Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey.

In the course of its data trawling, which commenced in 1999, Able
Danger grabbed some astounding data. According to DIA source, evidence
was uncovered of secret deals between then-Stanford University Provost
and Chevron director Condoleezza Rice and the government of China.
After former DIA analyst Russ Tice reported the possible presence of a
Chinese agent inside DIA, he was abruptly fired from his highly
classified position at his next agency, the NSA. At the same time, a
top Chinese analyst at DIA, who was responsible for taking care of his
elderly parents, strangely committed suicide. Almost simultaneously, a
highly-cleared Chinese-American Air Force officer stationed at Offutt
Air Force Base outside of Omaha, Nebraska, also committed suicide,
however, no suicide note or body were ever recovered. In November 2003,
similar strange suicides plagued the State Department, NSA, and CIA
communities as intelligence was being cooked to support the war against
Iraq. Tice, a veteran like John O'Neill of operations in Yemen
following the USS Cole bombing, was reassigned to the NSA motor pool
and later run through a series of humiliating and demoralizing
Kafkaesque hearings and panels run by a combination of NSA's draconian
Security Directorate and NSA's subservient psychological assessment
unit.

Suicide has now become commonplace in the US Intelligence community.

After the U.S. Army’s Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA) and its
contractor Orion Scientific pulled out of Able Danger, most of the work
was conducted between DIA’s TWI-2 (Trans World Information Warfare)
support (Computer Technologies) division, code named Stratus Ivy, and
Raytheon, a company with close links to the U.S. intelligence
community. TWI-1 is DIA’s Special Activities Trans World Information
Warfare support group, which liaised with the Able Danger group. It was
during Phase II of Able Danger, the phase that primarily relied on
Raytheon support, that the Chinese connection to Rice was uncovered. It
is uncertain what Able Danger and another DIA program code named
Doorhawk Galley may have uncovered on the Mohammed Atta cells around
the country, their affiliation with Israeli movers and art students,
and other terrorist plans, but the revelations of Able Danger have
resulted in the revocation of the security clearance, based on trumped
up charges, of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the key person involved in the
programs to track Al Qaeda prior to 911. The revelations have also
likely spelled the end of any further DIA data mining programs that
could embarrass the Bush administration and its Israeli and Saudi
allies. These include Able Danger’s proposed successor Able Provenance
and its data base Kimberlite Magic.

Another group that was getting close to Russian-Israeli Mafia
involvement with the so-called Al Qaeda network was the CIA’s Counter
Proliferation Division. Working through Operations Directorate and
clandestine case officers and non-official cover personnel, the CIA
began to discover links between Al Qaeda, Pakistan’s Inter Service
Intelligence (ISI), Pakistani nuclear weapons smuggler and top nuclear
physicist A. Q. Khan, and a Russian-Israeli-Turkish nuclear component
smuggling ring that involved illegal exports from the former Soviet
states, the United States, South Africa, and Malaysia to Pakistan,
Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea.

The secret deals to traffic in weapons of mass destruction, if
revealed, would expose certain key figures in the Bush administration.
Therefore, it had to be cut off at the knees. The White House
revelations about a CIA NOC front company, Brewster Jennings and
Associates and one of its under cover agents, not only served to attack
anti-Iraq war opponents but also effectively rolled up the covert
operation and took the heat off of certain political and financial
middlemen who worked for or were close to the administration,
especially within Dick Cheney’s office and Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon.
Chief among these were I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Cheney’s chief of
staff, and Douglas Feith.

It was not the first time that a CIA NOC company had been exposed as a
result of the penetration of the U.S. intelligence by a foreign
government. According to a former CIA officer, Synergistics
Technologies, Inc., described as a CIA front, had been exposed after
Israeli intelligence had broken U.S. and NATO encryption codes during
Desert Storm. The firm’s covert activities with post-Soviet Russian
television networks, the European Broadcasting Union, and the Regional
Security Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow were laid wide open.
That compromise of U.S. intelligence with the Israelis would not be the
first. Air Force Colonel Larry Franklin was indicted for passing
classified information to the pro-Israeli organization, the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Since Franklin agreed to a
plea bargain with the government, it is expected that the case may
target additional officials and consultants of the Bush administration.

***

The clearing of the baffles by senior officials of the Bush and Clinton
administrations in preparation for their defining moment of a “new
Pearl Harbor” has resulted in the virtual destruction of America’s
ability to adequately collect intelligence and honestly analyze its
importance. The corridors of the FBI, NSA, DIA, CIA, State Department,
Treasury, and other agencies are littered with the broken careers and
dead bodies of dedicated intelligence and law enforcement officers.
There are a number of cases in which career and conscientious
intelligence and law enforcement officials have abruptly lost their
jobs -- some for showing undesirable independence and free thinking,
others for merely knowing too much about who knew what and when about
911.

The neo-cons have done to the U.S. Intelligence Community what
Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. America has
never been weaker. Rather than creating a "New American Century," the
neo-cons have created a new global "Dark Age" of fear and constant war.
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